Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uneasily aware that the increasingly prosperous and powerful nations of Western Europe would not forever accept total U.S. control of nuclear weapons, the U.S. offered more than two years ago to give them a voice in their disposition and use-but left it to Europe to devise a formula. It was not until the Kennedy Administration canceled the bug-ridden Skybolt missile project last December that the U.S. was forced to take the initiative. In place of Skybolt, the Administration reluctantly offered at Nassau to supply Polaris missiles for an independent British submarine force...
...Algerian delegation, headed by Defense Minister Houari Boumedienne showed up in Cairo to pay its respects. "Regarding Arab unity," said Boumedienne. "our objective should be the creation of solid, strong and healthy bases. The Arab people are not ready to accept another setback, another letdown. For that reason, all steps toward Arab unity must be absolutely unshakeable...
...rule has not brought unmitigated bliss to Egypt. The banks and insurance companies were nationalized, and their owners paid off partly in bonds that may not be redeemed for years to come. Contractors whose earnings reach $69,000 a year are taken over, or forced to accept joint participation by the government. Wiped out are the great landowners; farm holdings are now limited to 100 acres per family. This form of socialism is benign enough. It leaves most of the nation's commerce in private hands and does not affect the overwhelming number of small farmers...
Whatever happens to Joan Crawford, 45. there seemed to be no room in her future for Pepsi on the Rocks. In Philadelphia with Adopted Daughter Cindy to accept an award from the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women, the veteran screen star, widow of Pepsi Cola Chairman Alfred M. Steele and herself a board member, pooh-poohed those rumors that she might play First Lady to New York's dashing, divorced Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Highly unlikely, said Joan; she has only met Rocky once. Furthermore, "I don't need this publicity, and I'm sure he doesn...
...protest painter, had the byproduct effect of leading Mexican art "up a blind alley -two generations of picturesque Indians making tortillas or setting out candles for the Night of the Dead." When abstraction invaded the country, it turned out to be another false trail. "Mexican gallery-goers began to accept 'action painting' as the expression of our times 20 years after the battle had been fought out in New York, Paris, and Rome...