Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Dulles' Role. In the London Sunday Times, Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, who regrets only that Eden called off the attack "too promptly," calls himself still "an unrepentant supporter of Anthony Eden," though he doubts that John Foster Dulles played quite so villainous a role as Eden suggested. ("In the course of my contacts with him I found him a man of great parts and integrity.") But with a condescension toward U.S. statesmanship worthy of the British Foreign Office of 50 years ago, Drew Middleton, London bureau chief for the New York Times, suggested in a review...
Drainpipe Trousers. Unlike Margaret, he does not enjoy dancing, because of a childhood polio attack which has left him with a stiffened leg, but he is happy to play the clown at parties. Wearing drainpipe trousers and suede jacket, he serves friends his own well-spiced cooking...
...jittery Cairo, the rumor spread that the Israelis were mobilizing secretly to attack while Nasser was in Damascus...
Died. Adriano Olivetti, 58, Italian industrialist who turned a one-plant operation he inherited in 1932 into Europe's No. 1 manufacturer of typewriters and office machines of such craftsmanship that they grace art museums as well as offices; of a heart attack, aboard a train in Aigle, Switzerland. An idealistic businessman as well as a sound one, Olivetti boasted that he gave his workers the best conditions in Italy and a voice in management. In off hours he promoted a broad-based cooperative movement, on the strength of it won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...sure that an employee gets recognition of some sort for faithful service. Jaspan cites the case of an employee in a Southern hardware store who was making $150 per week after more than 40 years of service, and had been promised a partnership. When his employer suffered a heart attack and sold the business, the new owner demoted him. The employee promptly set to work stealing because "my old boss left me nothing." Confronted with the theft of $91,000, the employee claimed that "every penny I took rightfully belongs to me." When he reached $100,000-the share...