Word: canceled
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Most Israeli citizens agreed with Ben-Gurion. Nonetheless, anti-German feeling still runs deep in Israel, and a noisy minority led by the right-wing Herut Party and the Communists decided to vent it on Strauss. They urged the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to cancel the visit and declare that Strauss was unwelcome. When the Knesset refused, street demonstrations broke out in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. But Ben-Gurion stood firm. When Strauss landed at Tel Aviv-a day late, in hopes of avoiding a scene-his plane was surrounded by scores of police; three bodyguards were posted...
Shortly before, President Kennedy had received from Premier Khrushchev a message replying to a joint U.S.-British appeal to get the stalled nuclear test ban negotiations moving again. To head off the obvious inference that Khrushchev's message prompted the U.S. decision to cancel the Nevada tests, Administration spokesmen hastened to assure newsmen that the events were unconnected. "Just a coincidence," said one high official. Khrushchev's letter, according to New Frontiersmen, "left the test ban issue right where it was-on dead center...
...Chairman Newton Minow told the broadcasters he hoped the hearings "may encourage you to put more trust in the people and more faith in your own judgments of the public's capacity to respond to the best that is in you. I should hope that sometimes you would cancel the ratings and keep the programs. It's not accuracy I'm particularly worried about. I just don't think it's the function of broadcasters simply to count eyeballs...
...ADVOCATE has dropped preparations for the visit of Soviet writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Harvard, Terence Cogley '65, president of the ADVOCATE, said yesterday. Cogley explained that he has assumed on the basis of newspaper information that pressure from Soviet political authorities will force Yevtushenko to cancel his tour of U.S. college campuses...
When the shutter is opened and a picture is momentarily focused on the film, the situation suddenly changes. Wherever light hits the film, the plastic it strikes becomes electrically conductive; the positive and negative charges flow together at that point and cancel each other out. Where no light strikes, the opposite charges remain in place, still pulling toward each other like opposite poles of a magnet...