Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat presumably was prompted by statements of some U.S. congressmen that the State Department should act to halt the executions which have followed the fall of President Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship...
Strange things happen in Washington when the Congress is in a hurry to adjourn. One of the more peculiar remnants of the hectic last days of the 85th Congress is a loyalty oath provision attached to the National Defense Education Act...
...action by the faculty of these schools is an act of genuine political courage, and demonstrates the effectiveness of "united action" by intellectuals. Other land-grant colleges and independent schools might well follow this leadership, preventing governmental prying from going any further...
Shelley is willing to confess that the act he originally planned for himself was never meant for the likes of The Ed Sullivan Show. When he was discharged from the Navy as an asthmatic in 1943, he was 17, and he entered Chicago's Goodman Theater to study acting. "I was pretty damn good," he confesses further, but he would end up working at a Daytona Beach, Fla. hotel. ("I ran around with a volleyball bothering people who didn't want to be bothered...
...against the companies, the cynically timed holiday strikes may well bring a tighter Government policy against such walkouts. At week's end Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell announced that he will soon convene a top-level labor-management conference to debate whether the 33-year-old Railway Labor Act, which tries to regulate airline disputes, needs revamping and toughening. Hearing the news, Eastern's Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker called for a law to require compulsory arbitration of disputes that cannot be settled by Government mediation...