Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the only thing Pakistan did have in good supply was people. Fortunately, among them were a few able men who knew government and how to train administrators. Somehow they put a government together and gave it enough meaning to hold together. They were forced to skip, a few things in those hurried early days-among them, a constitution. Last month Pakistan's five-year-old Constituent Assembly began to debate a "Basic Principles Report" that will be used as a guide for constitution-making. Best bet: a democratic republic with a strong executive, outside the British Commonwealth...
...halves separated by 1100 miles, condemned by partition to hold a 4,000-mile frontier against Russia, China, Burma, Afghanistan, Iran and India, Pakistan makes sense as a nation only because it feels itself a nation. Its cocksureness could set a subcontinent on fire. Yet one thing seems certain: now that they have a country of their own, Pakistan's Moslems will defend it to the last gasp...
...engineering students, there are laboratories big enough to hold any kind of model machinery; for demonstration lectures, there is a whole building full of amphitheaters; for the humanities, there is a three-story, ruler-shaped structure 1,000 ft. long...
Toward the Ivory Tower? With its traditions of self-government and academic independence, the university is likely to hold its commanding position in the Latin American intellectual world. Some 5,000 non-Mexicans enroll each year in its 15 colleges. But it is a big question whether the university's prestige will persuade the distinguished Mexico City lawyers, physicians and businessmen who now comprise almost 90% of the faculty to continue as part-time professors at a nominal fee of about $10 a month, after the university moves eleven miles away from their courts, hospitals and board rooms. These...
...today's sad songs, people merely sob or suffer from wounded pride. Moreover, Nelly is no longer a lady Stephen Foster would have understood. She tells her boy friend: "Come on-a my house," or howls "hold me, thrill me, kiss...