Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets at the Pantages Theatre tomorrow, it will-if running to form--abandon scientific selection and vote along non-artistic lines. Two years ago, to skirt a decision between All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard, the Academy chose Born Yesterday. And last year An American in Paris became the darkhorse victor over A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place in the Sun, and Death of a Salesman. Gene Kelly's technicolor crepe suzette was a fine musical comedy--it was also inferior to the other three. Also last year unpopular Marlon Brando...
Though Eden made it clear that Britain did not intend to abandon diplomatic recognition of Mao Tse-tung, the new agreement on trade with Red China removed one of the most dangerous conflicts between British and American Far Eastern policy. Even those Americans who still hold to an almost superstitious dread of the subtle cunning and persuasiveness of British diplomats had to admit that this time the U.S. had done a good, if belated, piece of business...
...antitrust laws, Lilienthal says, is based "largely upon prejudice created by abuses long since corrected ..." and against the danger of future abuses of power by Big Business "we either already have adequate public safeguards or know how to fashion new ones as required." In fact, the nation should abandon limitations upon Big Business for a governmental policy which will promote "those principles and practices of Bigness that can bring us, in increasing measure, vast social and individual benefits...
...steps toward this trade, the U.S. should: 1) write a new law to eliminate all tariffs as quickly as possible, 2) abandon the "Buy American Act" and quota system which "is contrary to every principle of free enterprise" because it permits only a fixed quantity of goods to enter the country, and 3) enact a workable law to simplify customs procedures...
...High Commissioner pledged the United States to resist any Communist Berlin. "The new administration in Washington will not abandon Berlin. We shall continue to fulfill our duties and maintain our rights," he said...