Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendes tried to delay elections by demanding electoral reforms first. Faure blandly said he would accept any one of a dozen proposed electoral plans before the House, but demanded a vote of confidence on elections soon. He won, 330-211, with the help of 88 Communist votes. Presumably the Communists would just as soon have an early election while the spirit of Geneva is still in the air and voters everywhere are grumbling about the Saar, North Africa; the draft and the high cost of living...
...Commission for War Orphans: "A Jewish child must be brought up in Jewish surroundings." Retorted Geertruida: "The child, who came to us when she was two, became aware of things only in our surroundings and thus knows nothing of the surroundings of her parents." After almost two years of delay, on July 21, 1947, a social worker had gone to the Van Moorst house to take custody of Anneke and found that she had disappeared...
...line over his domestic competitors. He is scheduled to get his first DC-8 in May, 1959, have it in service that November. Thus, United should have DC-8s in the air even before Pan American, which will have to wait until December 1959 for its first plane. The delay is caused by the engines. United's jet liners will have Pratt & Whitney J57 engines (more than 10,000 Ibs. thrust), already in military production. Pan American's planes, which need a bigger power plant for long transatlantic flights, must wait for Pratt & Whitney...
Perhaps the basic reason behind Washington's three year delay is the fear of souring the smiles emanating from the Soviet Union. An attempt in a review conference to remove the veto power, for instance, could only antagonize the Soviets. Three years is a long time to wait, however, for a clarification of world politics. If the Soviet sun keeps shining for another year, a review conference should surely not upset any real change in Soviet attitude. And if the sunshine is only an illusion anyway, a review conference would only reveal already existing differences between East and West...
...freshman football team will travel to Hanover this morning for a second try at opening its season. The first scheduled game, with Tufts last Saturday, was flooded out, but the Yardlings are considerably stronger for the delay...