Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made up its mind whether to accept the political onus of unbalancing it. On virtually all the legislation handled so far, the 86th has started off as though prepared to go all the way in upsetting the budget, then had second thoughts and trimmed the spending to something fairly close to Administration requests. Just before Congress recessed last week, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let it be known that he was getting tired of the whole business. "If we cut a dollar below what [the Administration] wants," complained Mr. Sam, "it's like the heavens are going to fall...
Toward week's end Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, new president of the ruling Congress Party, seemed to reverse her father's earlier decision to close India's borders against refugees. Paying tribute to the Dalai Lama (who has reportedly fled Lhasa) as a "man of vision and intelligence." Nehru's daughter promised that any Tibetans fleeing to India would be "granted asylum under international...
...lowered down the shaft, but only three reached Moss, and all blacked out because of the motionless, foul air. None was able to make a head-first descent and keep an oxygen mask over his face. Finally a tiny (5 ft.) printer from Derby named Ron Peters, 25, got close enough to be able to touch the trapped man's shoulder but began to gasp for air, had to be pulled up fast. On being revived with oxygen, Peters said: "I'll have another go.'' This time he managed to tie a hemp rope around Moss...
...loss of East German production would upset master plans, close factories and throw men out of work from Warsaw to Peking. Khrushchev obviously has no intention of bargaining away his hold: he wants to be confirmed...
...likely place to start drilling is north of Puerto Rico, where the deep ocean floor lies conveniently close to San Juan's harbor. The project's cost might be $20 million at most, or perhaps only $5,000,000. Nobody knows where the money will come from, but an AMSOC daydreamer is not easily discouraged...