Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bourguiba has become, in many senses, a prisoner of his Algerian guests. He has allowed them to establish supply depots, training camps, mutual-aid societies everywhere, and in the process the Algerians have infiltrated every branch of Tunisian administration. Bourguiba sees himself as a mediator between the French and the Algerians, but finds no takers. Says harassed Habib Bourguiba of his own land, with more truth than immodesty: "A stray bullet may kill me and the country would be plunged into anarchy...
...Honolulu Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Dodging flak showers, Civilian Northrup dashed to the burning Navy Yard, helped put out submarine-detection devices from a patrol boat in pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force, named technical director of something called AFOAT-1, a special project of the Air Force Office of Atomic Energy so secret that his bosses refused to say they knew...
Does a newspaper publisher have the right to move into a town, drive an existing paper out of business, and establish a local newspaper monopoly? Last week a U.S. district court gave its answer...
...first step in revitalization could come next Saturday at the Millrose Games in New York, when the mile relay squad will attempt to re-establish itself against top-flight competition...
...eight years-fearing that it would become just one more platform for anticolonialist tirades-European colonial powers had opposed setting up a U.N. commission for Africa like those already in existence for Asia, Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards...