Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times the committee interpreted the amendments making it a crime for a member of the Communist Party, an defined by the Warren Act to apply for NDEA funds. The committee also objected to the vagueness of the amendment which states the Commissioner of Education can cancel or revoke an award if he thinks an award is "not in the best interests of the United States." The Columbia group protests that this amendment connotes "no guarantees of due process for the student...
Just so no one would misunderstand, Castro made it clear that all the other Soviet-bloc weapons already delivered-the MIG jets, heavy artillery and tanks -belonged to Cuba alone. In fact, said Castro, "several months ago the Soviet Union decided to cancel the whole arms debt of our country." Was Cuba weakened by Khrushchev's retreat? Was Castro diminished? "Don't think that the retirement of these strategic arms disarms us. All the other arms stay in this country. Fatherland or death! We will conquer...
...finance minister and chief troubleshooter among big businessmen. Though there was resentful talk of a Kishi dynasty, it soon died down, and before long the country took it for granted that eventually Sato would become Prime Minister too. When the wild, leftist-backed riots that forced Dwight Eisenhower to cancel his visit to Japan in 1960 also forced Kishi to resign prematurely, the job went to Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda...
...Detroit, it was a shiny, triumphal week. Even the Cuban crisis, which forced Vice President Lyndon Johnson to cancel out as the chief speaker at a black-tie dinner of the auto industry's top brass, hardly diminished the excitement of the 44th National Automobile Show. Most of the million people who passed through cavernous Cobo Hall during the course of the week cheerily ignored the corny musical revue, in which leggy girls and toothy boys noisily attempted to equate car buying and patriotism ("Drive, you eagle, drive,/Hooray for the bright new day,/ Hooray for the U.S.A...
Europe's principal worry is a critical labor shortage, which has brought on a rapid rise in wage levels. The result has been a profit squeeze that has led many firms to cancel expansion plans and forced them to raise prices. Higher prices have hurt exports, while wage boosts have increased consumer demand, which has raised imports. Economists agree that increased consumer spending cannot offset the downward pull of reduced corporate spending and exports...