Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NOVEMBER: BERLIN. When the Kremlin's Khrushchev put out his provocative plan to turn prosperous, private-enterprise West Berlin into a "free city" demilitarized and disengaged from the cold war, the NATO governments proclaimed their intent to hold fast at Berlin. West Berliners themselves rejected Khrushchev's "free-city" plan by voting 98.1% to 1.9% against the Communist candidates in city elections. Score at halftime: West leading in defense of a key position deep in Communism's territory...
...Corps pilot). While an aircraft-carrier deck officer in three Pacific battles, Indiana's J. Irwin Miller, 49, gained the confidence it took to build the family owned Cummins Engine Co., Inc. into the largest U.S. maker of truck diesels. Says he: "I found out I could hold my own away from home...
...Pistol Technique. The twelve years of retirement that followed were in some ways the most educational in De Gaulle's life. After abandoning active efforts at a political comeback in 1953, he continued to drive into Paris from Colombey once a week to hold court in his Spartan Left Bank office on the Rue de Solferino. And because he remained for many Frenchmen a kind of father figure, men of every political current called to confide in him. Without ever soliciting information, De Gaulle became perhaps the best-informed man in France on the inner workings and gaping inadequacies...
...sugar plains of Las Villas province the rebels claimed the capture of several more small towns. The government gave credence to their claims by shaking up the army command, ordering in more reinforcements and warning the civilian population that it intends to bomb out any rebel attempt to hold the central province. Reports of heavy fighting came out of Fomento. near the Sierra del Escambray. The rebels held Sancti Spiritus (pop. 60,000) for a night, drove the army from Caibarién. a north coast sugar port, and closed in on the Las Villas capital of Santa Clara...
Left exposed, the statues would have weathered away; underground, the fragments survived. Discovered and dug up 70 years ago, the statues were pieced together again. A large part of the museum's work has been to reconstruct the reconstructions. Artisans before World War II used iron bars to hold the fragments together. But now the bars are rusting. So Meliades is replacing them with bronze reinforcements, an operation he calls "responsible and sometimes breathtaking...