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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once President Eisenhower managed to eliminate the deadline from the Berlin ultimatum, the urge to discuss Germany had evaporated amongst everyone but the British. As French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville put the German problem bluntly last week: "The best thing for the West is to maintain the status quo. It is to Russia's interest that there be changes. We are not in a hurry to get to that point...
...years, with nothing to show in new weapons, but including an unprecedented display of small sports cars. In the main speech of the day, Marshal Malinovsky saluted Khrushchev's call for disarmament, added that since it had not yet been accepted, the Soviet armed forces must "maintain a state of high preparedness...
...prices 15% below small stores. One big gainer from the new supermarkets: the Italian government, which levies a 26.85% annual tax on supermarket income v. only 14% charged smaller dealers. What is more, the supermarkets pay up, which cannot be said of many small-store owners who stanchly maintain a tax-dodging tradition...
Each company pays Flight Safety $750 per pilot for the first year's instruction, $600 for each additional year's refresher course. Ueltschi estimates that Flight Safety's charges are one-tenth of what it would cost a company to maintain sufficient instructors, equipment and flight procedures. In addition, the pilots put in time (cost to the companies: $50 an hour) in a twin-engine translator and a just purchased Convair 340-440 simulator that can simulate every possible flight condition from ice to fire to mechanical malfunction. "There is not a pilot anywhere we could...
James Joyce harbored throughout his life a compulsive need to feel himself betrayed. Perhaps it helped him to maintain his chosen stance of lonely, lofty defiance of the "trolls," as he called the common...