Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justify an optimistic outlook.'' Said Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "The end of the great pressure of the downward movement will come to an end during the second quarter. It will mill around during the summer and lift in the autumn." The Administration's decision to hold the line on taxes already had the tentative approval of House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. But there were plenty of critics, both in and out of Congress, waiting for things to get worse...
...religious orthodoxy that considered everything non-Russian as heresy and the work of such men as Copernicus as "the craft of the Devil.'' The first academicians were mostly from the West, but whether Russian or not, they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from the days of the early academy's great all-round genius Mikhail Lomonsov -poet, pioneer physical chemist, physicist, reformer of the language, and "father...
...Hold Aloof. Academy President Nesmeyanov seems the very model of the independent scholar and gracious host. But the academy's general secretary is a cop type named Topchiev, whose job it is to keep the "party character" alive within the academy. Through Topchiev, the party still belabors scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along...
...lifted for 34,791 Peronistas. Another 6,500 got the right to resume labor union activities-just in time for an all-out fight for control of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). A new government interventor for the C.G.T. was appointed last week by Frondizi and instructed to hold free elections within 90 days. Peronista-dominated unions were favored to win a close race for control of the huge (3,000,000 members) organization...
...sawed-off, hammered-down, pint-flask-size men of the world hold their heads in pride high above their inches today. A new Napoleon has arisen to the height of five feet seven to lead the bantam brigade...