Word: fends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prognosis: the school bill should have easy sailing through Congress if the leadership can fend off civil-rights amendments; the immigration law faces rough going, may be defeated...
Their first objective was French Communist Party headquarters. Earlier, the government had offered the Communists police protection, but Party Boss Jacques Duclos refused the help, sure that his party toughs could fend for themselves. When evening fell, a dozen Communists stood guard on balconies before closed iron shutters, as from five narrow streets the mob surged in. The Communists greeted them with a fusillade of bottles, one a Molotov cocktail that exploded in flames in the crowd (see cut). The youths regrouped and rushed the building. One shinnied up a traffic light to fasten a bloodstained Hungarian flag. The others...
...problem (not peculiar to North Carolina) has been the dearth of highly susceptible teen-agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby...
Indonesia's army is well trained, high-spirited and bigger than the nation can comfortably afford. Since 1952 the army has had to fend for itself, living haphazardly on inadequate special appropriations because no government has lasted long enough in office to get a budget through Parliament. Army forces in north Sumatra found smuggling a practical solution to the budget gap. Rubber smuggling is big business: last year Malaya officially bought five times as much rubber from Indonesia as Indonesia officially exported. It was also profitable: the army acknowledged having earned...
...nation's Capitol has been a center of stormy artistic controversy ever since Amateur Architect Dr. William Thornton had to fend off the claims of his professional rival, Stephen Hallet, to get the credit for his 1793 plan. Last week it was once again the focus of debate. At issue this time: a $12 million appropriation voted by the House to start remodeling the east facade (plus another $28.5 million to remodel the two congressional office buildings and begin building a third...