Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haven's steep decline began in 1954, when a syndicate headed by Financier Patrick B. McGinnis won control of the line. McGinnis promptly cut service and maintenance, issued truculent public statements to commuters, who protested (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). McGinnis was finally forced out after a bitter commuters' revolt, and into his place stepped quiet, fiddle-playing Lawyer George Alpert -who differs from McGinnis in being more polite...
...week's end, attending a meeting in his native Bavaria. Erhard was cheered as he said that he had resisted an open fight with Adenauer because of the gravity of the international situation (the same reason Adenauer invoked for not stepping down). On the surface, Adenauer's control of his party and his victory over Erhard were incontestable, but wounds were not yet healed, costs were not yet reckoned, and the struggle not yet over...
Norstad was now upset by another De Gaulle strategy-his refusal to permit stockpiling of U.S. nuclear bombs in France unless the French government has control of them. Pointedly, Norstad let it be known that he was thinking of transferring nine squadrons of U.S. F-100 and F-1O1 fighter-bombers out of France...
...former Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani (TIME, May 26, 1958 et seq.) began to slip his bright young men from Rome into Sicily's Christian Democratic organization. Last October, outraged by this infringement on Sicilian autonomy (and threat to Sicilian patronage), Milazzo bolted the party. He managed to get control of the regional assembly by putting together a crazy-quilt coalition of Monarchists, Fascists, dissident Christian Democrats and Communists...
...groups, all sharing a long list of grievances against the two-year-old Communist regime, including "antidemocratic activities" and "misappropriation of funds." The Roman Catholic Church, in this most Christian of India's 14 states, was also aroused by a new state law giving the Communist government increased control over private schools...