Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese airfields, troop concentrations and industrial centers across the entire northeast. China's outnumbered jets are swept from the skies, and within a week the major Manchurian cities of Shenyang and Harbin have fallen to the Soviet pincers. Linking up, the Russian columns race south toward Peking, then halt 50 miles away...
...most disurbing development of all has been Nixon's failure to curtail the quiet intensification of the war in the South which followed the bombing halt last fall. The number of U.S.-initiated ground contacts with enemy forces doubled between November and February, and the New York Times reported several days ago that this trend appears to be continuing. According to no less an authority than Averell Harriman, the recent Viet Cong "offensive" is in reality a response to this stepping up of the ground war by American forces...
...over 50 years old. A shortage of 9,000 seats necessitates double sessions. Reading levels fall substantially below the national average, and the schools have been afflicted with so much turmoil that the city has posted 145 guards in them within the past two weeks in an effort to halt attacks on teachers and students...
...angrily maintain that scenes of seals being skinned alive were staged by the TV men). Another film is being shown around the world by a determined Canadian S.P.C.A. executive named Brian Davies. It has provoked emotional stories in the world press, and something close to an international crusade to halt the hunt. Angry letters and petitions flood Ottawa, and demonstrators have besieged Canadian embassies and consulates. Among the protesters are Americans obviously unaware that the U.S. sanctions hunters who annually club or shoot 120,000 seals in the Pribiloff Islands of Alaska. Boycotts have seriously affected sales of all varieties...
Jose Luis Sert, dean of the School of Design, authorized increased student-faculty involvement in the advisory committee earlier this month after receiving a petition signed by over 150 students and faculty members. The petition called for both increased representation and for a planning halt...