Word: held
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...violent overthrow of the U.S. This provision, which would doubtless face stern constitutional testing as to whether it violated the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, is an attempt to answer the Supreme Court for reversing the Smith Act convictions of 14 California Communists. The court last year held that the Smith Act did not cover the "abstract doctrine" of violent overthrow, but only the "teaching and advocacy of action in language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such action...
...Institute of Technology, made headlines with his newest point: the most dangerous element of nuclear-test fallout over a period of five to 10,000 years is not strontium 90 but carbon 14, a low-radioactivity but long-lived (half-life: 5,568 years) isotope that from tests already held will, said Pauling, cause 5,000,000 defective children in the next 300 generations. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, one of the world's top authorities on carbon 14, replied that bomb tests had not produced enough carbon 14 to cause more than "very minute" danger. He added...
...time, it has seemed closest to France. Since 1956 the government has been safely in the hands of Premier Nicolas Grunitzky, a naturalized French citizen and member of the French National Assembly. The boss of the ruling political party is also a naturalized French citizen. Last week, when Togoland held its first election under universal suffrage, not even the opposition thought that the voters would do anything but confirm the status...
...opposition represented, and France was able to keep control of defense, finance, labor and education, as well as the High Commissioner's power to veto any legislation. Last year, dissatisfied with Togoland's progress toward independence, the U.N. politely but firmly ordered a general election to be held under U.N. supervision...
...government-held ports and airfields were repeatedly bombed and strafed, he cried that "adventurers from Formosa and even from the United States" were responsible (President Eisenhower's answer: "Our policy is one of careful neutrality and proper deportment . . . Now, on the other hand, every rebellion that I have ever heard of has its soldiers of fortune."). Advising the U.S. "not to play with fire," Sukarno added: "If the outside world is thinking in terms of making Indonesia into a second Korea or a second Viet Nam, there will be World...