Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...many a worried U.S. retailer, it was the plight before Christmas. "Of course we're not ahead of last year's sales now," Bloomingdale Board Chairman J. Edward Davidson summed it up last week. "But with two extra shopping days this Christmas, we still have a chance to top 1959." For the year so far, store sales are barely even with 1959's record totals. The big test is in the sales that are made in the gift-buying stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas-usually 16% of the year's total. For most retailers, Christmas sales...
Pleas for Patrice. In Manhattan's U.N. headquarters, the plight of Songolo bothered almost no one. The loudest laments were for Patrice Lumumba, who, it was rumored, had been mistreated in Colonel Mobutu's army jail, though doctors reported he was only somewhat bruised from the Congolese arrest techniques, which prescribe cuffing and a few kicks in the behind. Russia's Delegate Valerian Zorin introduced a new motion in the Security Council, demanding Lumumba's immediate release from jail and reinstallation as Premier. Moreover, said Zorin, the U.N. should get out of the Congo...
...allies were properly appreciative of the seriousness of the U.S. plight, and in serious moments serious about it. But some found it hard at all times to keep an altogether straight face...
...British-French debacle at Suez. They did not even bother to join such U.N. voluntary agencies as the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, which supports, among others, refugees from Hungary and Algeria. And despite the Russians' crocodile tears over the plight of Arab refugees, they contributed nothing whatever to their support; the U.S. paid $23 million...
...Reports (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A report on the plight of the world's 15 million refugees, featuring scenes from Yul Brynner's recent European and Middle Eastern trip as a United Nations representative and including his interviews with Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Jordan's King Hussein...