Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep Out of the Kitchen. Khrushchev seemed especially angry that President Eisenhower had said that he could stay no more than seven days at the summit and had suggested that if it lasted longer, Vice President Nixon should replace him. Evidently still smarting from his unscheduled debate with Nixon at the U.S. fair in Moscow last summer, Khrushchev rumbled: "It is hard for me to shake the impression that the last thing Nixon has in mind is to reach agreement on outstanding questions, liquidate the conditions of tension, and stop the arms race." Sending him to the summit, added Khrushchev...
...party aides. Early last year Khrushchev told Averell Harriman in Moscow that he regarded Kozlov as his successor. But Aleksei Kosygin, 56, named First Deputy Premier last week in Kozlov's place, has since won equal apostolic blessing for his work as head of Khrushchev's seven-year-plan. On tour in France last month, Khrushchev several times pointed to Planner Kosygin as "my successor...
...have to abandon the "imperial preference" system, which allows Commonwealth nations to export many agricultural products to Britain duty-free, gives them a substantial tariff advantage even on the manufactured goods they ship to Britain. As a counter, Britain organized the European Free Trade Area-the so-called Outer Seven...
...Dubious Bludgeon. As the British first conceived it, the Outer Seven could be used as a bludgeon to force the Common Market nations to abandon their tariff discrimination against the rest of Europe. But last week, as the Outer Seven deposited the articles of ratification in Stockholm and became a formal reality. Swedish Commerce Minister Gunnar Lange glumly conceded that prospects of bringing about a wider association between the Outer Seven and the Inner Six "do not seem very bright...
...companies kept their separate identities, but adopted for their common symbol the polished sea shell that Samuel had used as his trademark when he was importing shells to grace the boudoirs of Victorian ladies. To assure Dutch control, an agreement was made that four of the seven managing directors be Dutch...