Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist technique of "rotting from within," Indo-China-style, the SEATO powers would "consult immediately." This was hardly a firm pledge, but at least it would give the U.S. (or other nations) an opportunity to step into such situations if they wished. SEATO's proposed boundaries would extend north to the 21° 30 min. parallel, thereby excluding Formosa from the zone of coalition defense...
...attracted such students as Novelist Wallace Stegner, such teachers as Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Robert Lowell. Its staff helps edit Poetry magazine and the annual O. Henry Prize Stories collection, in one year managed to turn out six published novels.* But S.U.I.'s zest for experiment seems to extend through the humanities...
Meanwhile the Senate was still talking. Nevada's dour George Malone was in a huff because Colorado's Eugene Millikin had blocked his pet bill to extend the tax-free whisky-bonding period. So Malone resolved to block Millikin's pet Colorado Basin project, which was the Senate's pending business. He talked about neither reclamation nor whisky and he talked for four hours. ("What is he talking about?" asked a late-coming reporter of a press-gallery attendant. "I don't know; he hasn't said," replied the attendant.) Finally Millikin threw...
...sodden rot of defeat, surrender and demoralization is eating its way through the fragile fabric of earnest little Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...
...Administration regards his tonic as worthless as a cancer cure. Yet some 40 new patients a day keep coming to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas, hoping for the miracle cure-at $300 to $400 a treatment ("charity" patients pay little or nothing). Hoxsey friends are now trying to extend his domain beyond Texas. For weeks an attempt to establish a new Hoxsey clinic in Pennsylvania has been kicking up a major...