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Many of the Arab League countries are so engrossed with their quarrels with Israel and with Great Britain or France that they pay little heed to the menace of Soviet Communism. However, there is more concern where the Soviet Union is near, and in general, the northern tier of countries have an awareness of the danger. There is ... a vague desire to have a collective security system. -John Foster Dulles, June...
...Grover was undaunted, even though no one paid his boasting much heed since the venture was so obviously impossible. No one, that is, except the local Boston press. Headlines announced, "Ex-HARVARD STAR BEGINS HUB-PROVINCETOWN SWIM," and glorious Grover took...
...attend formerly all-white schools, while 50 whites will attend all-Negro schools. In New Castle County (Wilmington), 14 out of 20 school boards intend to integrate. But in Kent and Sussex Counties, officials of only one (the city of Dover) out of 27 white school districts intend to heed the Supreme Court...
...over: he had no office. Acting Chief of Staff Zulkifli Lubis, a Kusumasumantri man who has since split with him, refused to budge from his chair. Kusumasumantri fired him and named another Deputy Chief, only to have the replacement decline the honor. With nary a soldier to heed his command, one-handed Chief of Staff Utoyo repaired to a room in the Hotel des Indes, where he could bark orders at bell boys to heart's content...
...military caps below competitors after all bids were supposedly in, Lev swore it was all news to him, insisting, "This is really strike me like a ton over my head." Suddenly, he leaped up and began passing around pictures of his plant, refusing to heed Senator McClellan's order to stop. "I'm proud of this plant," he cried, holding up the hearing while he distributed pictures to all the reporters...