Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the General Assembly. At issue was the Security Council seat to be vacated at year's end by Yugoslavia in accordance with a "gentlemen's agreement" devised in 1955 to break a 35-ballot deadlock between Yugoslavia and the Philippines. Under this agreement, Yugoslavia was to hold the seat for the first half of the normal two-year term and the Philippines for the second. Now, however, Kuznetsov, claiming that Russia had "made no promises" to observe the agreement, demanded that Communist Czechoslovakia be elected to replace Yugoslavia. If the Philippines should be elected, he warned, Russia...
...candidates who survived the competition at the State level last Wednesday, today is the big day. The eight District Selection Committees will hold their interviews within the next few hours, and shortly thereafter the 32 Rhodes Scholars for next year will be announced. A few of them--about four--will be Harvard students. All of them will have received one of the most respected, most competitive awards available anywhere for university students...
This bothered the Crimson only intermittently, and for most of the contest it was able to hold the Jumbo's key players under control. Pete Stanley, a lanky 6-6 center, was the only other Tufts offered. He played well under the boards, and scored 15 points, many on tip-ins, but alone was unable to counter the general Crimson height. Tufts was out-rebounded...
...north of Radio City Music Hall, has been leased from the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which is financing the project and intends to build its own new home office directly across Sixth Avenue. One famed 51st Street institution to be affected is Toots Shor's Restaurant. Shor will hold out at his present base until a new home is built for him in a wing of the skyscraper, move in without missing a meal while the rest of the building is going...
...Jerusalem boarding house-marital intrigue, religious argument, family bickering-and could just as easily have taken place in any Western capital. Two of the tales-Barhash and Hamamah-are about Arabs, not Jews, and reveal a surprising attachment for the way of life of Bedouin and fellahin. Others hold a mirror to contemporary Israeli life: Yehuda Yaari's pastoral The Shepherd and His Dog reflects the sabra's passionate love of his barren land; Jerusalem-born Yehuda Burla writes wittily of the marriage between a stolid Oriental Jew and his hopelessly romantic Russian Jewish wife-which is also...