Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago, in a crisis brought on by the leftists, conservative Premier Ahmed Balafrej and his government resigned. Harassed King Mohammed promptly turned to the one man who seemed to have the authority to halt the bickering inside the Istiqlal; he asked Allal el Fassi, 48, the party's political leader, to become Premier. El Fassi is both a religious mystic and a rabble-rousing extreme nationalist who has led the agitation for a "Greater Morocco," to include large hunks of the French Sahara. He proposed too many leftist Cabinet ministers to suit the King. Last week the King...
Touring the Japanese countryside, Garcia heard the cheers of dock workers, the praise of industrialists, even saw one of Japan's on-the-dot express trains brought to a halt so that his entourage could pass. "My God," remarked one Garcia aide, "the treatment we are getting! Here we are kings. In the United States [last June] we were beggars...
...pretty, with 282 parties. Chances are that Rodgers' & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song will be a hit anyway, but parties already account for $700,000 in advance sales. In fact, it is so hard for ordinary customers to get Broadway tickets that R. & H. have called a halt to further parties. Complains Renée Schonceit, one of Broadway's top ticket brokers: "Why, for Marriage-Go-Round, we can't get people tickets to the men's room; they've all gone to theater parties...
Successful Protestant missions, organized and financed by rich congregations in the U.S., have pushed Latin America's Protestant community from a mere 170,000 in 1916 to nearly 5,000,000 today. To halt this trend, CELAM wants more clergymen. Latin America has 35% of the world's Catholics but only 8.7% of its priests. CELAM's plan is to establish new seminaries in Latin America to train native clergy. In the meantime, it wants more Spanish and other foreign priests to fill...
...Soviet Union relieves the U.S. from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear-weapons tests." The U.S. would continue its suspension "for the time being," said the President, but if the Soviet Union did not "shortly" settle down to business and agree to a one-year halt, the U.S. "will be obliged to reconsider...