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...cruised eastbound above the sandy beaches of Baltic Latvia toward the heart of the Soviet Union. With Russian officers peering over the shoulders of American pilots, with its distinguished passengers at the windows looking down upon unfamiliar landscape, the jet flew on across the great Russian plain, the jagged pattern of Russian farm fields, an occasional blue lake and great patches of green forest, until it let down through a blur of urban haze for a smooth landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. It was 2:47 p.m. when Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, fresh in dark grey summer...
Inkeles and Bauer conclude that if Americans are not equal to the task of maintaining freedom, they must leave the Soviets to set the pattern of human existence...
...radical
and drastic than the Reds consider wise as a first step to the
collectivization they, but not the Cubans, want." But as early as April
23, Times-woman Ruby Phillips, in a story run by the Times (over
Matthews' strong objections), reported in detail on "a Communist
pattern in the development of the revolutionary program." Again, in
May, Ruby Phillips wrote: "Since the victory of the Castro revolution
last Jan. i, the Communists and the 26th of July movement have been in
close cooperation." Most newsmen agreed.
Inside Song. In clearly choosing sides in Cuba's conflict. Herb Matthews, 59, was following a well-established pattern in his long, award-studded career. In 1929 he went to the Far East, where tension was already rising, came away feeling more sympathy toward the Japanese than the Chinese ("What I responded to, above all, was the charm and hospitality of the Japanese"). When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Matthews enthusiastically supported the Italians, later wrote: "If you start from the premise that a lot of rascals are having a fight, it is not unnatural to want...
Blough guided Big Steel through a major reorganization to keep it up with the times. He transformed the corporation from a sprawling holding company with dozens of subsidiary corporations into an integrated corporate unit, spun off businesses, e.g., shipping, that did not fit into the company's basic pattern. To get Big Steel on a lean, efficient basis, he vigorously pushed a standard-cost system for evaluating every job in the company. He increased the company's incentive system until it now covers 75% of all employees. (Blough, whose salary is $265,000 a year, also picked...