Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europe hoped that the summit meeting could counter and reverse the decline in Western prestige since Sputnik. In this time of anxiety, the West looked to the U.S. to provide a new sense of strength and resolution. The NATO allies would rather have it from Ike. whom they hold in admiration and familiar affection. But if Ike is incapacitated, they are quite ready to accept it from Nixon. The summit meeting would fail only if the U.S., whoever spoke for it, failed to provide that leadership...
...reputation as a special friend of the Arabs, Franco secretly agreed to cede Southern Morocco to the Moroccans some time in the future. He has since changed his mind. Reason: prospectors have found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory. At week's end. Franco rushed 3,500 more troops into Ifni and had beefed up his Spanish West Africa garrison to 5,000 with reinforcements from the mainland. Morocco's partisans, regular or irregular, were not going...
...bourgeois," recalls one, "and we used the materials we felt safe with. We worked through the Rotary Club, the bar association, the medical association." At first they held a long "civic dialogue" with Batista, aimed at persuading him to hold a fair election. That failed. "Then we tried military action, thinking that a few key leaders here and there would do the trick." Batista got wind of this plot, led by Lieut. Colonel Ramón Barquin, and squashed it handily (TIME, April...
...medical opinion (as relayed by Press Secretary James Hagerty) to the contrary, many physicians hold that it is 95% certain that the President has arteriosclerosis; otherwise it is most improbable that he would have had a heart attack in the first place. And in elderly patients who have heart attacks, there is usually simultaneous involvement of the brain's arteries, so that parts of them are inelastic and narrowed, offering points of resistance that invite clot formation...
...case of the Lampoon "fool" who tried to hold up Santa Claus was continued in East Cambridge District Court until next Thursday...