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...Matter of Definition. Soustelle wants to do more than wipe out France's dollar deficit. He hopes to make France a major oil supplier to the entire 168 million people in Western Europe's new Common Market nations, feeding oil by tanker into the southern end of a projected 36-inch pipeline from Marseille to Karlsruhe. Sahara's natural gas might be transported to Europe either by tankers specially built to carry it in liquid form or by a trans-Mediterranean pipeline through Spain. And Algeria itself will benefit from a feeder line to carry gas from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Visionary | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...airlines. This year, as part of industry's tougher stand toward labor, management aims to pluck some of the featherbeds. A chief cause of the current steel strike is management's insistence on winning more control over local working practices, partly motivated by the desire to wipe out what Chief Steel Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper called "loafing, featherbedding and unjustifiable idle time." The railroad industry, worst feathered of the lot, has pledged an all-out assault against make-work when contract talks open this fall. In the oil industry, the American Oil Co. has taken a month-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEATHERBEDDING: Make-Work Imperils Economic Growth | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...assassin's bullets 2½ years ago. Luis got himself elected in his father's place. While brother Tachito tried to keep the country quiet under the heavy thumb of the national guard, U.S.-educated (Universities of California. Maryland and Louisiana State) President Luis tried to wipe out the dictator label. He freed the press, treated plotters with unheard-of leniency, promised free elections in 1963. even proposed a constitutional amendment that would prevent him or any near relative from following him to the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: A Blow at the Brothers | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Earlier Retirement. While only a handful called for a general wage increase (average demand: 12½? or 15? an hour), many a worker wanted to wipe out wage inequities and sweeten fringe benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: What the Workers Want | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...size but bold in heart," and toured their few factories and roads (all built by Soviet technicians with Soviet funds). He also brought along his Defense Minister, Marshal Malinovsky, to play straight man for his warnings to the neighboring Greeks and Italians that "shortrange" missiles fired from Albania could wipe out their cities, and so they had better think twice about being used as NATO missile bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Swim in the Adriatic | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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