Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierian Sodality of 1808 will next year hold a composition contest for undergraduates. The competition, to be held for the first time, will be judged by professors of Music...
...week go by without a claim for some new highway, irrigation project or defense installation attributable to his efforts, linked the profits of New Mexico businessmen and the jobs of New Mexico workmen to his Senate politicking. Last week, as New Mexicans went to the polls to hold their primaries, Chavez let loose a final claim that New Mexico will get $261 million from the Defense Department in fiscal 1959,* twice the annual level when Chavez took over the Appropriations Subcommittee in 1955. "This increase," said Senator Chavez meaningfully, "didn't just happen...
...been proclaiming his party's unwillingness to participate in any conceivable government, hastily agreed to serve as Pflimlin's Vice Premier, and said he would even be willing to serve as Under Secretary of Beaux-Arts. In the Assembly, Pflimlin demanded emergency powers -the right to hold suspects without trial, to make searches at any hour, to deport citizens from troubled areas, to impose full censorship and to close movies, theaters and cafes. Working with unprecedented speed, the Deputies gave him the powers he wanted within the day -and did so by one of the biggest majorities...
...SCIENCE), the Soviet Union had again "outstripped the U.S." Amid shouts of post-toasty laughter, he ridiculed the U.S. space satellites as apelsin-sputniks -orange-sized Sputniks. "By all the rules of arithmetic," he crowed, "we can see that they [the U.S.] will need a mighty big basket to hold enough of these oranges to equal our Sputnik...
...generally content, the Christian Democrats were expected to lead next week's election returns, but not even Fanfani foresees a majority that would allow his party to rule alone. Under new election laws, the Christian Democrats must win almost a million more votes than in 1953 just to hold the 261 seats they now have in the Chamber of Deputies. They are in the awkward position of asking Italians to vote for a party that does not yet know whom it will nominate for Premier. Adone Zoli, the present caretaker Premier, has indicated that he will not take...