Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Big Powers thus stalemated, the U.N.'s little nations gave new voice to old complaints. In the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee, Yemen demanded an end to Britain's protectorate over Aden in southern Arabia. Greece called for self-determination for British-held Cyprus (in the hope that it would go Greek). Guatemala wanted Britain to give up British Honduras to Guatemala. Egypt kept up her demand for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly...
...extra patrols and more careful searches. The courts have stiffened the penalties for large-scale smuggling, raising the customary $200 fine to $1,000 and confiscating trucks caught carrying contraband. But the flood, estimated at 50 million bootleg cigarettes a month, continues unabated. The price is too good, the demand too great, the border too long and too free...
Navajo Indians are in demand as workers in the sugar-beet fields of the West, for, unlike braceros (from Mexico), they are not protected by treaty regulations. Navajos are cheap; they keep their mouths shut and they do as they are told. When the season ended at Burley, Idaho, a Navajo beet picker named Kee Chee dumbly obeyed orders to get his family on a chartered bus for the long ride home to New Mexico-even though it meant taking his sick, seven-month-old daughter out of a hospital at nearby Bear River City, Utah...
Woodman's ten water-colors on crumpled, water-soaked paper are among other experiments. The textural effects are novel but the painting is modiocre. His ideas seem better adapted to the medium of clay and plaster because his abstract forms demand depth, which he has failed to give them on paper. His large oil of a girl is technically competent and clearly expressed. I like the same girl in a green water-color much better; her mood is catching...
...response to widespread public demand," RCA Victor has been reaching into its vault, doling out items on LP from its "Treasury of Immortal Performances." Last week two "Treasury" releases made record news...