Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to keep the 1958 spending total from running past the new $72 billion estimate, the Administration is squeezing to hold defense spending down to $38 billion. And the high cost of technological complexity in the jet-missile-atom era makes that ceiling uncomfortably low. In the past few months. Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson ordered uniformed-manpower cuts totaling 200,000 men (TIME, Sept. 30). And in the week when the Soviet Union launched history's first man-made earth satellite, the U.S. was nibbling again at its own defenses. Item: the Strategic Air Command announced that...
...Program for Harvard College will hold its most important "briefing session" of the year today as President Pusey, Dean Bundy, and Alexander M. White '25, general chairman of the program, will speak to a group of Alumni fund-raisers...
Within an area smaller than Cambridge, these men are fighting bitterly for the right to rule fewer people than populate this University. The Communist force atop Mt. Titano claims virtual control of the country, while the anti-Reds, holed up near the Italian border, maintain that the Communists hold power solely through force, fear, destruction, and fraud...
What happens there doesn't matter terribly much. Nobody's going to hold many more marbles when the game's over. Yet, we can't help feeling a certain admiration for those few who are trying to maintain the freedom of the world's oldest republic. We hope they make...
...high level of taste and integrity. Furthermore, any cultural phenomenon which shows so much tenacity as the musical theater must fill a real need or it could not exist for thirty or forty years without alteration. Musicals are not only the very distillation of glamor and sophistication, but also hold out the promise that everything is, after all, for the best, and that love will triumph...