Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nuclear weapons have made war suicidal a Western representative pointed out. "What we are trying to do here is to establish some common ground with the Russians ... In this nuclear age if you can devise a sure guard against surprise attack, there will be no attack. And if there is no attack, there will...
Almost simultaneously with Nasser's deal for Communist arms, Libya agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Russia, negotiating the deal in Cairo with no notice to Western powers. Short, bland Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generalov, under the sponsorship of El Faki, wasted no time in making capital...
Watching its North African territories slip away. France at long last read its lesson. Demanding powers to establish local government and to give natives equal voting rights in its other colonies in "Black Africa," the Mollet government declared: "We must not permit ourselves to be outstripped and dominated by events, to yield subsequently to demands when they express themselves in violent terms." By an amazing 477 to 99, the Assembly gave the government the powers it had requested. For good measure, the government itself belatedly approved reforms for Algeria. Sample: 50-50 shares for Algerian sharecroppers (to whom heretofore landlords...
...cook. George Washington shunned contact with the press until he was ready to quit the presidency. Then he called in the editor of the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser and asked him to run the text of the Farewell Address. Not until Woodrow Wilson did a President establish the formal, regular White House press conference. Last week, just 43 years after Wilson launched it. President Eisenhower gave the conference his blessing as "a wonderful institution...
...Albert Hall, where jampacked fans hungrily took in such Kenton specialties as Theme of Four Valves and 23° N= 82° W* Critical evaluation ranged from cool ("about 30% art, 70% commercial gloss") to enthusiastic ("at all times vital and alive"), and it seemed certain that Kenton would establish attendance records on his 35-concert tour of the British Isles. Under an agreement between the two unions, top British Bandleader Ted Heath will reciprocate with a tour of the U.S. next month...