Word: setbacks
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Nowadays, the balance in the troika is such that no one man is likely to impose his will against the others. A majority vote in the Politburo decides policy on many issues. Even Brezhnev was dealt a setback recently when the Politburo cut back by 13% his fiveyear, $45 billion crash investment program in agriculture. Kosygin was reported to have opposed bringing Sinyavsky and Daniel to trial but to have been outvoted by his colleagues. The move toward high-level democratization has in no way been institutionalized, however, and it is still possible that one man could again gather...
...Workers President Walter Reuther and Company Negotiator Malcolm Denise finally signed a new three-year labor contract. That done, Ford announced that it lost $73.9 million during 1967's third quarter, compared with a $65.8 million profit for the same period last year. It was the biggest earnings setback since Ford went public in 1956, and the strike was obviously to blame. But troubling though the deficit was, Ford should make up most of its losses with a surge of sales to customers who waited out the strike...
...being given the award on the strength of Harvard's record of eight wins and one loss. The lone setback did not harm his chances for the honor, since it was to Princeton, a club outside New England...
...more crucial setback has been the reaction of the Cambridge real estate community. In his first statement Hayes called on landlords and rental agencies to refuse to rent to hippies...
...home, meanwhile, he played to the Arab grandstands by nationalizing two American-owned oil-distribution companies. Syria, where the Six-Day War is called "the Temporary Setback," sent Foreign Minister Ibrahim Makhous to Khartoum, then recalled him before the summit began. "There is no prospect for positive action," the departing Makhous announced...