Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Khrushchev's table-thumping performance at the United Nations is evidence of this return to post-war Stalinism and the rigid division of East and West into two absolutely opposed camps, he claimed. Moscow's inability to do anything but tone down the "obvious crudities" of Chinese policy in the Manifesto is proof that Mao Tse-Tung can intervene successfully in Russia's internal affairs...
...which last week dipped below $18 billion for the first time since 1940. Anderson's major demand was that Adenauer shoulder the costs of keeping U.S. troops in West Germany-some $600 million per year. The Germans refused, making some promising counteroffers (see FOREIGN NEWS), but under the rigid terms set by Anderson himself the mission had to be counted a failure-for the moment, at least. Though Anderson was accompanied by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, State Department sources spread the word that both Foggy Bottom and the U.S. embassy in Bonn were "unhappy" about Anderson...
...Peru. A rigid feudal system controls most of the nation's land and wealth. Peru's mass-based APRA is firmly anti-Castro, but it has no chance of instituting social reforms until elections in 1962; in the meantime, a new, nationalistic party is rising to chip away APRA's strength...
...China today, Lindsay remarked, "a very high state of political hysteria," prevails. The leaders of the country, utilizing a very rigid and extreme form of Marxist analysis, have even rejected the law of diminishing returns as a "bourgeois fallacy...
...General Motors' chairman is expected to be one of the most dignified men in the world." He rose through the financial side of the business, has never worked at making or selling a car. Donner does not consider this unusual. "People seem to think of accounting as a rigid little box," he says. "At General Motors the financial staff gets into all areas of the business more than any other staff...