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...arguments will be mere rhetoric, there being no legal ground on which to fight. Although state intervention has worsened the New Orleans situation, it is unlikely that the city's troubles will become as acute at Little Rock's. The lesson of Arkansas acquiescence, following her exhibited temerity, will deter Louisiana from similar extreme action...
...names were deliberately omitted from the resolution in line with Secretary of State Dulles' policy of maintaining freedom of action; at the same time, the resolution was aimed at keeping the Chinese Communists at bay, since, presumably, they did not know whether the U.S. would attempt to deter an invasion of Quemoy. "I won't be pressed or pinned down," said Dulles at a press conference, "on whether an attack on Matsu and Quemoy would be an attack on Formosa...
...praising Red China, or of calling the U.S. "the common enemy of China and Japan," Asanuma organized the snake-dancing demonstrations that kept President Eisenhower away from Japan last June. Since then, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi and Socialist Jotaro Kawakami have both been stabbed by fanatics. This did not deter the Socialists from launching further violent demonstrations. Crying "Down with Ikeda," left-wing Zengakuren students charged police barricades at the Diet, began their ritualistic snake dance before the Premier's official residence...
...Cuba and the U.S., and the threat of Soviet Russia to intervene against the U.S. on Cuba's behalf. OAS treaties authorize diplomatic, economic and even military sanctions, but no one expects such strong measures. The U.S. hopes at most for a unanimous hemispheric warning that may deter Cuba from its course of volunteering itself as Russia's penetration point in the hemisphere. The test for the OAS is the degree to which it can make its disapproval strong and specific...
...Ticonderoga, which was shipped overland from nearby Lake Champlain, the jail from Castleton, Vt., the Colchester Reef lighthouse, a fully equipped 19th century pharmacy, and a Victorian railroad depot. Some of the buildings had to be dismantled to be moved and painstakingly reassembled at Shelburne. Such difficulties do not deter Mrs. Webb. "Please, Mother,'' one of her five children once begged, "if someone offers you Mount McKinley as a gift for the museum, don't try to move...