Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The decadent old capitalist custom of tipping is on the rise in the increasingly class-conscious Communist society that Nikita Khrushchev is building. Though what are called chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery...
Surrounded by Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky and other smiling brass, Nikita Khrushchev proposed a toast to the Red army as "the only army that voted for its own liquidation." Since it was such a jolly occasion, he obviously meant his own disarmament proposals, and was not calling up the evil...
At his press conference next day, President Eisenhower confessed that the affair was "puzzling." The treaty by which the canal was first built has twice been modified, he pointed out, each revision granting "a greater degree or level of rights to the Panamanians." What caused this puzzling tension between the...
"Panama, Like Egypt . . ." The Panamanian who has symbolized the discontent and would like to capitalize on it politically is Aquilino Boyd, 38, a handsome lawyer from a Panamanian "best" family, who would like to be elected President next year. For months, Boyd has been whipping up feeling. "Panama, like Egypt...
The future looked good, Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only...