Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Determined to win the return of the eleven men-dead or alive- the U.S. decided again to hold back public release of the damning evidence. Instead, the State Department privately confronted the Russians with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
After escorting his pregnant second wife to a lifeboat, coolly waving to her as the boat was lowered to the calm sea, jaunty, mustachioed Colonel John Jacob Astor IV went down with the unsinkable ship Titanic while the orchestra played "Hold me up, mighty waters, / Keep my eye on things above." That left a nervous, narrow-chested youth of 6 ft. 4 in., perhaps the greenest freshman at Harvard, to inherit a fortune of approximately $87.2 million, organized around vast and spreading holdings, including some of Manhattan's finest hotels-the Astoria. St. Regis, Knickerbocker. Cambridge and Astor House...
...last count, California's Ziffren seemed to have the votes to hold onto the convention for Los Angeles when the full committee meets late this month. But before the session is over, there may be a fascinating preview of the sort of fighting the U.S. can expect...
...Richmond. Governor Almond was careful to placate Senator Harry Flood Byrd's entrenched massive-resistance leaders. But he moved purposefully to consolidate the new coalition of moderates who helped him hold the line against the Byrdmen's drive for some last, Faubus-style gesture of defiance. "I don't feel defeated." said Almond, "just realistic." Carefully he picked 40 legislators for a commission to frame further resistance measures. Though segregationists all, the commission's members represented a gentle but firm shift away from control by the diehards from heavily Negro South-side Virginia, long the stronghold...
...slates. In 1953, the year he got fired as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi, he was elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which the blacks hold 14 seats to represent 6,000,000 people and the whites have the same number for 60,000. "We offer the Europeans the hand of friendship," he says, "but let them make no mistake about our determination to win our freedom...