Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas' Mills has plenty of home-state company in Congress' higher reaches. Of eight men in Arkansas' Washington delegation, four hold important committee jobs: Mills, Senator William Fulbright (chairman, Banking and Currency Committee, ranking member of Foreign Relations), Senator John McClellan (chairman, Government Operations), Representative Oren Harris (chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce)-a sizable share of congressional power for a state that is 32nd in population and 47th (next to Mississippi) in per capita income...
...what makes it hot is that, somewhere in the course of its travels, it has been handled by a company that is nonunion or is having union trouble. By forcing trucking firms to contract not to handle hot cargoes, the Teamsters make it more difficult for other truckers to hold out against Teamster pressure...
...Stassen believes the U.S. must make a conference-opening concession, i.e., cessation of nuclear testing for a short period as a demonstration of faith. Dulles is unalterably opposed to that idea and also to Stassen's notion that results can be got if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. hold private talks. Dulles in his preparations for Paris requested no position papers on disarmament from Stassen, left Washington wondering how much longer Childe Harold will continue in his State Department post...
...again gulled by over-optimistic news stories. One way to assure "full and balanced dispatches," suggested the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin D. Canham, would be to give newsmen full briefings on the next Vanguard test, but insist that they file their stories on a "hold-for-release" basis for use after the shoot. Straight from the launching pads came the best-aimed proposal of all. Said Lieut. Colonel Sid Spear, public relations officer at Patrick Air Force Base...
...suspense this situation generates is impressive. Beaten, starved, baked in a sheet-iron oven-how can the colonel possibly hold out? But he does. Backed by bayonets, stiffened by his code-how can Saito possibly give in? But he does. The British troops so successfully sabotage the bridge they are supposed to build that Saito is forced to ask the colonel's help, and to capitulate to his terms...