Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold on to Indonesia in 1950, Turk didn't. He organized a private guerrilla army of some 10,000 East Indies Moslems and Dutch deserters, terrorized a large area of West Java before the young Indonesian Republicans checked his army, "The Heavenly Host...
...great tin mines, 72% foreign-controlled (in the U.S., Chile, Switzerland) and source of 80% of Bolivia's foreign exchange, is the revolution's No. 1 question. Paz ran in 1951 on a nationalization platform. His backer, Juan Lechin, Marxist mine labor leader who now holds the new office of Minister of Mine: and Petroleum, is on record that "the workers must equip themselves to run the mine: effectively without the assistance of the owners." Paz almost certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition from Washington...
...Idler Players have given life and zest to Claire Booth Luce's witty comedy, The Women. True, there is little originality in the plot which concerns woman's unceasing efforts to hold on to her husband. But an enthusiastic cast, headed by Sandi Rosman as Mary and Sheila Flaherty as Sylvia, has made it an amusing and, at times, very funny play...
Littlewoods tries to protect its "investors." Anyone who wins more than $5,600 has his check delivered in person by a Littlewoods agent, gets free advice on how to hold on to his winnings. "Remember," cautions Littlewoods' pamphlet Safe Investment, "there are many sharks and sharpers...
...wait till now to tell his story? Partly because of the "specious reasoning which has silenced many liberals," i.e., "You may hate the Communists, but you must not attack them or expose them, because if you do, you are attacking the right to hold unpopular opinions." Added Kazan: "I have thought soberly about this. It is, simply...