Word: white
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...down in Brazil (Feb. 23-26), Argentina (Feb. 26-29), Chile (Feb. 29-March 2) and Uruguay (March 2-3). Noticeably absent from the itinerary are Peru and Venezuela, where Communist-led mobs heckled and attacked Vice President Nixon on his tour (TIME, May 19, 1958 et seq.); the White House diplomatically pointed out that a visit to Peru would also entail a stop-off in neighboring Ecuador, where the capital of Quito is too high (9.350 ft. above sea level) for a man with the President's heart history...
Grim Alternative. In November Labor Secretary Mitchell escorted Dave McDonald to a secret meeting with President Eisenhower at the White House. McDonald apparently convinced the President that management's terms were so tough that the union would have to go out on strike again when the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction ran out on Jan. 26. Bent on preventing a renewal of the strike, Ike summoned Vice President Nixon and Secretary Mitchell to the White House shortly before he left on his around-the-world tour, instructed them to push hard to get a settlement...
...World War II." During the postwar years, hourly labor costs in the steel industry climbed by an average of 8% a year. As the steel industry viewed it, the shift from 8% a year to 3.5% a year was progress of a sort. "The settlement is neither black nor white," said Inland Steel's Board Chairman Joseph Block. "It's grey." With a grey settlement that postponed the first wage boost until next December, with their 1959 ledgers showing hefty profits despite the strike, and with demand for steel running heavy enough to assure high output during...
...drunks and there could simply be no let up; there just had to be a laugh a line. One of the most wonderful things was touring for 'Community Concerts' and doing my monologues. I went stumping all over the country with them and we even performed at the White House and in London. 'A Round of Parties' is something of a departure for me. Essentially, it combines the elements of both the monologues and the novels...
...other books (A World of Strangers, The Lying Days}, Author Gordimer's characters faced the fact that they were white men, "few, guilty and unloved, in the black men's continent." This time, mostly, they face themselves...