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...Soviets be invited to discuss the matter with the Foreign Ministers of the four Western nations on the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee-Britain, France, the U.S. and Canada. In the end, it was the U.S. that gave ground. The compromise solution: any new negotiations should be "preferably within the framework of the U.N.," but if the Soviets balked at that, "we would welcome a meeting at the Foreign Ministers' level to resolve the deadlock...
...persuade bankers to back a factory. His factory turned out miles of pipe and thousands of joints for scaffolds, pontoon bridges, temporary grandstands. In World War II he switched from pipe to artillery shell production. At war's end he decided to turn his pipe into the framework of a motor scooter like the just-launched Piaggio & Co.'s Vespa (TIME, June 16, 1952). Last year Innocenti Corp. grossed $43 million from scooters, 6,000 of them exported to the U.S., earned another $19 million from pipes and machine-tools...
Innocenti's tubing will form the framework of the new Lambretta GoggomobiL He will have to dress it up for the Italian market, since Italians demand more flair in body style than the functional-minded Germans. But he still hopes to charge only $500 for his Lambretta Goggo, half the price of the cheapest Fiat...
...gentlemen, that you are looking at the hopes of the Western world." Last week, as a consequence of a Norstad visit to Brussels, and The Hague a few days earlier, The Netherlands and Belgium agreed on a plan for close cooperation between their air forces, within the NATO framework...
...ORGANIZATION MAN, by William H. Whyte Jr. A thoughtful and critical study of the growing numbers of Americans who tend to live, work, think and play within the framework of the large corporations that employ them. No off-the-cuff call for nonconformity for its own sake, the book (a surprise bestseller) spells out the need for genius and just plain individuality to speak in their own voices...