Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; Matthew V. Carson Jr., the Texas-lawyer-turned-naval-captain, who runs the voluntary restriction program; Ernest Thompson, chairman of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which controls oil production in the state that produces nearly half of U.S. oil; and Willis C. Armstrong, director of the State Department's Office of International Resources. Because Canada is also affected by U.S. restrictions, Canada's Ambassador to Venezuela joined the talks. Some of the facts: ¶ Of the 14% drop-off in Venezuelan oil production since the Suez-crisis peak...
...music trail that may lead not only to Europe's capitals but to the Belgian Congo and the rim of the Arctic Circle. This summer offers two special magnets for U.S. attractions: the Brussels World's Fair (highlights: the American Ballet Theater, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louis Armstrong) and Italy's Festival of Two Worlds, organized by Gian Carlo Menotti (three new ballets by Choreographer Jerome Robbins, a new production of Verdi's Macbeth conducted by the Met's Thomas Schippers). At many other festivals and in countless solo appearances around the world, the U.S. will...
Colonel Devere P. Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics, referring to his group's performance at the camp, said, "We are trying to take preliminary action that will permit Harvard men to do better up there...
...years as a teacher in little (pop. 2,500) Lakeland, Ga., Mrs. Armstrong B. Baskin, 64, never aroused anything but praise in the community. A farmer's wife, she worked hard for her $3,300 a year, was well liked both by her elementary-school pupils and by their parents. Last week Minnie Lee Baskin was out of a job. Reason: she had outraged the sensibilities of Lakeland's whites...
...wrong. Huffed Superintendent Threatte when she showed him the statement : "This may not be the last you hear of this business." The same day, a school-board member called on Armstrong Baskin, told him that his wife should resign, or be fired. A few days later, Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Wallace Thigpen and Member John Crum visited Teacher Baskin herself. Confronted by the awesome threesome of Threatte, Thigpen and Crum, she decided to quit...