Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...letter was flown to New York by U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy and Deputy Assistant Secretary Foy Kohler, placed in the hands of the Soviet Union's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, about to return to Russia after a U.S. tour. It was kept tightly secret for almost a month; Vice President Nixon was informed of the plan only the day before his July departure for the Soviet Union; Milton Eisenhower, accompanying Nixon, was not told at all. Ike's invitation and Khrushchev's acceptance crashed into world headlines...
This week the presidential Taft-Hartley fact-finding board, headed by Mediator George William Taylor, will receive from the steel companies the offer that the workers will vote on in company-by-company, secret-ballot referendums. The offer: a three-year wage-and fringe-benefit package that, as the industry reckons it, would increase labor costs by 2.7% a year, or about 30? an hour over three years (present steel wages average $3.10 an hour, plus fringe benefits). According to Labor Department figures, 2.7% has been just about the average yearly increase in steel-industry productivity (output per manhour) since...
...station control system. The U.S.-British position was that no control system at all might be better than one that lulled the West into an illusion of security, behind which its enemies might test on, the explosions muffled in huge caverns in the depths of Siberia, secret and undetectable...