Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Party Commission studying possible reforms of the party will hold hearings in Boston this Thursday...
...fact, though, Gropius' hold on that essence seemed to be more than just metaphorical. When he founded Architects Collabortive in '52 at the age f 69, he was just beginning one of his most productive periods...
...Biafra has received guns, food and medicine by air chiefly through a section of highway at Uli that has been converted into a landing strip. Except for spasmodic harassment, Nigeria did little to stem the nightly flow of planes. As Biafra's General Odumegwu Ojukwu, 35, continued to hold out and at times take the offensive, Gowon and his aides became convinced that the Red Cross and church relief groups were supplying guns to him as well as proteins.* When Sweden's Count Carl von Rosen last month introduced his six-plane instant Biafran air force...
Mile-Long Trains. In the project, the two principal Australian companies -Broken Hill Proprietary Co. and Colonial Sugar Refining Co.-have an impressive line-up of international partners. American Metal Climax has a 25% interest; Japan's Mitsui and C. Itoh and Britain's Selection Trust Ltd. hold lesser shares. Their hardest job has been to get the ore out from the Mount Newman area, which is 780 miles by road from the nearest large city, Perth. In just 14 months, U.S. and Canadian companies laid down 265 miles of railroad track to connect the site with Port...
...changing focuses, splicing bits and pieces sharp as shards, he re-creates their barbed world in a manner often confusing but finally effective. With their mother dispatched to another relocation camp i,n Montana, the father has abdicated his paterfamilias function. Instead, Fumiko, an older married sister, tries to hold the assorted family together: Ruby, a 13-year-old kid sister who becomes pregnant; Napoleon, her kid brother who dreams of becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit. Harold, a literate older brother, irreverently sabotages the ultra...