Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations have achieved independence-some through war and rebellion, others as a result of a policy of enlightened gradualism on the part of their onetime colonial masters. An outstanding example of the second category is the onetime condominium known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Next month the Sudan will hold its first general elections since independence was formally achieved two years ago. For a report, see FOREIGN NEWS. Promise on the Nile...
Approximately 300 of the students seeking entrance may know of tentative acceptance before the University's May notification date. Members of the Admissions Office staff hold conferences with some school principals, and, after considering interviews, class rankings, and Scholastic Aptitude Tests, give the school headmasters and principals some indication of an applicant's chances for admission, contingent upon consistent good work for the rest of the year...
...credit tight, despite the rising clamor of businessmen for easier money. The New York Chamber of Commerce and Chairman William H. Moore of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. both appealed to the Fed to ease credit by lowering the amount of funds that commercial banks are required to hold in reserve against demand deposits. But Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., speaking at Richmond, Va., still branded inflation as the economy's enemy No. 1-hardly the talk of a man prepared to make money easier...
...some of the others are cowardly, but courage and the lack of it do not matter; nor does brutality or kindness. The meaninglessness of war swallows everything. West German Novelist Ott is writing about men engulfed by the dark millennium Yeats foretold when "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
...acting is generally genuine and well integrated, but there are, expectably, no outstanding performances in any of the rather routine roles. Wallace Action is particularly appealing and townsy as a pragmatic storekeeper, and James Whitmore, Leon Ames, Dorothy McGuire, and Claudia McNeil hold up other roles respectably...