Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kozlov was on hand at 6:30 next morning, more chipper than the night before, to board his chartered airliner for a lunch date with California's Governor Edmund G. Brown in Sacramento. He slept during much of the trip but managed to rouse himself long enough to hold an airborne press conference. First crack out of the box, Hearst Reporter David Sentner asked Kozlov why Khrushchev did not curb subversive activities of U.S. Communists. The question seemed to shock Ambassador Menshikov, but not Kozlov. Said he blandly: "Our country never interferes in the internal affairs of any country...
Boosted and backed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a young lawyer who lives in a split-level home in a New York City suburb won election last week as speaker of the New York state assembly, ending the traditional hold (69 years) of powerful upstate G.O.P. forces on the job. Popular, hard-working Winner Joseph F. Carlino, 42, is the son of an Italian politician who quit Tammany
Repeatedly during the 20-minute, standing-up conversation, Warren held clenched fists before him, handcuffed-style, said: "Look, I'm handcuffed, really handcuffed." As Chief Justice, he explained, he could not hold news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full...
...first, there had been hints of mutiny among Christian Democrats angered by Adenauer's highhanded methods, but in the end they were united by their desire to hang together and hold office. As more than a thousand electors gathered in the huge, marble Nazi-built East Prussia Hall in West Berlin, it was clear that Christian Democratic ranks were solid. Even Liibke's rival. Socialist Candidate Carlo Schmid, 62, hoped Lubke would be elected on the first ballot to save everybody time and effort. Delegates in the humid hall wandered out to the lobby for sausages, beer...
Although still the idol of India's millions and an extraordinary crowd-pleaser, Nehru has clearly lost his once unshakable hold on the country's intellectuals, business leaders and the press. As the Bombay Current put it last week, complaining about Nehru's trust in Communist promises: "A time has come in India when the free man is not prepared to stake his freedom on Mr. Nehru's wobbly judgment. The oracle of New Delhi is proving too often wrong in his prophecies...