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...Quick Shift. On the evening of July 4, 1946, V. M. Molotov had said: "Tozhe ne vozrazhayu-I, too, do not object." The other delegates thought that sentence ended ten months of wrangling over convocation of the Peace Conference. But the worst was ahead. Next day, Molotov, as one American delegate put it, "seemed to be oozing vast gobs of grey sweat." He returned with tight-lipped truculence to the Soviet position of blocking the peace. First, he insisted on excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept...
Boogie Woogie & Bases. The extras included boogie-woogie bands and tightrope walkers. He put on a "swing shift" ball game (beginning at 6 a.m.) for night workers in war plants, and gave away sway-back nags and pigeons (without cages) as door prizes...
...State Department this spring (TIME, April 8). The Acheson plan divides atomic work into activities "dangerous" and "nondangerous" to world security. An international Atomic Development Authority would take over the dangerous enterprises, leaving the nondangerous to the nations. The plan admits that the line between the two may shift with future developments; one of ADA's prime functions would be to keep track of the shifting line...
...matter of charity, for the offending apparel had been bought by Iranian merchants in the U.S. and shipped to colleagues at home for resale. But Azerbaijan, while praising Franklin Roosevelt and his Lend-Lease, saw, under Truman, an evil policy shift for a sinister motive. The new U.S. line, said Azerbaijan, was "restriction of world trade to American monopoly, thus giving the Americans an opportunity to sell their secondhand clothes...
...Little One. The Government turned him down on many a request. It refused him three paid holidays, a 9½? shift differential, discounts for miners at company stores. He wanted the operators to pay for miners' explosives; he wanted 15 minutes more for miners' lunch periods...