Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday the annual meeting of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association will be held at 10 a.m. The association will hold elections for new officers and directors
...meeting did turn thumbs down on M.I.T. linguistics professor Noam Chomsky as a speaker for the rally which the ad hoc committee is planning to hold outside the Yard after the walk-out occurs. Chomsky had told the ad hoc committee that he would speak at the rally only if his presence was acceptable to Harvard...
Being able to hold the summit meeting at all represents a victory of sorts for the Russians. From 1962 onward, Nikita Khrushchev tried to convene a world conference to deal with the Chinese. After the ouster of Khrushchev in 1964, the summit plan was shelved until three years ago, when the collective Kremlin leadership of Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin began to push for a meeting where the Soviets could try to reassert their old primacy within international Communism. Twice a date was set only to be scrubbed -first by the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets and then...
...other hand, has left the family home this year and with four other men has gone off to Biafra on a big-game hunt of sorts. The weapon they chose is an odd one: a Swedish single-engine aircraft known as the MFI-9B trainer, equipped to hold twelve rockets in pods under its wing. The bag claimed so far has been equally unusual: it includes four MIGs, one Ilyushin 28, two Canberras, a Heron and a control tower, all belonging to the federal government of Nigeria...
...abroad more cheaply than they can live at home. The opposite extreme is represented by A Millionaire's Guide to Europe, which is full of advice on how to behave as if you owned that rented Spanish villa. Or how to fly a private jet around the Continent, or hold a party in a rented windmill...