Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongman of his party-not merely in New York City, but in New York State. Even more significantly, in the five-day catfight he came out the conqueror of Governor Averell Harriman (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955). At the same time, New York Republicans held a two-day love feast, nominated Nelson A. Rockefeller for Governor, and got set for an election rivaled in national interest only by the fight for California's governorship. For the stories, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rocky in Rochester and The Buffalo Brawl...
...press conference the President naturally was asked about Communist China's invasion threats against Nationalist-held Quemoy and Matsu. And in that sequence he was asked about the discretion of U.S. field commanders in using nuclear weapons. The President hesitated, stumbled, labored his way through 120 rambling words, finally ended by saying: "I would have to make certain. My memory is not quite that good this morning...
Four years ago, when Communist China poured shout and shell on the Nationalist-held offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, President Eisenhower came to a decision never publicly announced: U.S. force would be used to help fight off invasion of Quemoy and Matsu by Red China. Last week, with shout and shell raining again (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. saw Quemoy and Matsu as being of even greater importance than in 1954. Said the President at press conference: the Nationalists now have one-third of their strength deployed on the offshore islands, and loss of that strength would lay Formosa...
...nature and of man," Murano's craftsmen reached their greatest peak as they learned to twist glass into all manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms of whole ships, gondolas, pyramids, belfries, tubs, whales...
...American Chemical Society advisory committee that approves every frame of the films: "We've been very careful to avoid the Walt Disneyish type of film. There are no little fairies pushing things around." Neither are molecules represented-as they are in classroom models-by little balls held together by rods. Says Hildebrand: "We have taken out the rods and put in dotted lines to represent axes. That way nobody will mistake them for anything physical." Middleman-and translator-between the chemists and the cinemakers is Earl Mortensen, one of Eyring's graduate students. He draws rough sketches...