Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis Mumford, a member of the Executive Council of the United World Federalists, will speak to the Harvard Branch of World Federalists Wednesday night...
...China ordered a seven-day cease-fire in the Formosa Strait, and Red China's Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai sent a special message to the Nationalists proposing peace talks between Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists. While holding out what may or may not be an olive branch, Peng also turned the sword in a new wound. "The Americans are bound to go," he said to the Nationalists. "They have to go. The day will come when the Americans will abandon...
...World of Strangers is a simple novel that dissolves harrowing complexities. To Johannesburg comes a young Englishman, Tobias Hood, to manage the branch office of his uncle's publishing business. His only feeling about race problems-and in fact most problems-is that he wants no part of them. Born into a family of compulsive do-gooders (he can still remember his mother reading crusading pamphlets in her bath), he candidly admits that "what I really wanted was to enjoy what was left of the privileged life to which I and my kind have no particular right...
...host of icons sent abroad for the first time from great collections in Turkey, Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. The total effect is a reminder that for more than a thousand years, from the sack of Rome in A.D. 410 to the Moslem capture of Constantinople in 1453, the Eastern branch of Christendom was the creator and guardian of classic...
...Senate overrode (69-20) Ike's veto of a minor bill raising basic wages at the Kittery (Me.)-Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard to a $2.50-an-hour par with the Boston Naval Yard. The action marked the first time in six years that either congressional branch overrode an Eisenhower veto. Later, the House vote to override (202-180) was less than the necessary two-thirds, keeping intact the President's record of never having a vetoed bill passed into...