Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, besides golf, were four days of comparative rest after arduous weeks of working as President even while pitching in harder than ever before on foreign policy during the absence of Foster Dulles. With Congress recessing and rushing out of Washington, the President scheduled a light week. He held his 155th press conference, ranged from summit talk to the possibility of using Texas cabbages to feed out-of-work coal miners in Kentucky and Pennsylvania ("I happen to be one of those people who likes cabbage in all its forms"). He welcomed a gathering of Governors calling...
Within 30 days of Ike's signing of the bill, there must be 1) a gubernatorial proclamation calling for a referendum to approve statehood, and 2) a primary election within 60-90 days. General elections must be held no later than 40 days after the primaries. Hawaii will then be officially proclaimed a state. Depending on how soon Governor Quinn acts. Hawaii could just get its star pinned to the flag next July 4-the date set for Alaska's big moment...
Venice, the lagoon city that once "held the gorgeous East in fee," is now down to glass blowing, lacemaking, and putting up tourists. As its ancient islands and handsome buildings sink ever deeper into the waters of the lagoon, Venetians and their businesses have been migrating to the booming towns of Mestre and Porto Marghera on the mainland near by, while the population of Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial...
...last time the Polish Communist Party held a congress, back in 1954, Wladyslaw Gomulka was in jail-a Communist leader long out of favor with Stalin. But this time, as 3,000 delegates from all corners of the country gathered in Warsaw's ugly Palace of Culture and Science, Gomulka was plainly running the show and the country. His rasping, 200-page, seven-hour keynote speech was a catalogue of past achievement and future confidence, and if any in the audience still doubted the wizened little man's survival power, their doubts vanished before the week...
...Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...