Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promise withdrawal of U.S. forces at a given future date if all sides get together, name a candidate, call off the three-month strike, and let the country return to normal. Against that day, which President Eisenhower again promised last week "just as soon as the U.N. can act effectively to ensure the independence and integrity" of Lebanon, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold expanded his Observers Group to 200 and laid plans to increase the number of border watchers to at least 1,000. Said Murphy: "We are making progress. I think there is a good possibility that a President will...
Though never before had the government had to deal with a case in which a Negro married a white woman, it found no legal way to keep Mistress Matimba out of the country. But since the Land Apportionment Act of 1941 forbids whites and blacks to live in the same community, the question arose: Just where could the Matimbas go? At first, Patrick, the son of a Negro Anglican priest, helpfully offered to become his own wife's servant -the only kind of Negro permitted to live among Europeans. Then Saint Faith's Anglican Mission, in the white...
...Question of Conscience. Last week, as Rusape citizens hammered away at the government to exile the Matimbas from the area, Prime Minister Sir Edgar Cuthbert Freemantle Whitehead rose in Parliament to move the second reading of an extraordinary amendment to the Land Apportionment Act. The amendment proposed that any European woman who married a native would legally become a native herself. Whitehead said that everybody would be free of party discipline to vote as they wished, because this "is more a question of conscience than of government policy." One opposition member foresaw some unexpected consequences. "We say," he began, "that...
...Keith Engen, who sang King Heinrich (wearing his 1944 University of California class ring). While the principals were vocally uninspired, the chorus was in splendid form-despite severe hardships. Wieland's staging demands that the male chorus remain frozen-and conscious-for 70 minutes in the first act. In last week's premiere, several members retreated giddily to the wings. One, in a dead faint, crashed to the stage with a thud that even towering Leo Slezak's dying topples never rivaled for sheer dramatic impact...
Professional critics were quick with praise. Said the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby: "The Near East crisis gave TV a chance to hold its head up for a change and act like a responsible medium of expression. If Nasser has nothing else to his credit, he can, on the day of judgment, say he got three giveaways [For Love or Money, Play Your Hunch, Dotto...