Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more disturbing to Spanish pride were reports of restive stirrings in Melilla and Ceuta, the two cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that the Spanish hold and intend to hold, come what may at Ifni and in the south. Both cities are predominantly Spanish, have been ruled as part of Spain for more than three centuries. Last week the nervous Spanish garrisons' commanders had reportedly declared a state of emergency in the two cities, rounded up suspected Moroccan agitators, had hastily thrown up barbed-wire barricades along the borders facing independent Morocco...
However illegal the seizures,, were, by last week the government was clearly determined to give them some ex post facto cover of legality. Indonesian politicians of all parties emphasized that there would and could be no turning back, that the Dutch hold on Indonesia's economy would be broken, no matter what the cost. West Irian had only provided the occasion for a break they considered inevitable...
...disintegration. Nitrate-base film, widely used until 1948, has a lifetime of only 25 years. "It is not unusual," says an expert, "to open a can of film and find nothing but dust." Almost as frustrating is the sheer volume; the vaults of the U.S. armed forces alone hold 166 million feet visible to the public-enough to provide 3^ years of solid viewing, day and night...
...reapplied to the same spot. "I hear music again," she said. She hummed the tune in time with the orchestra that she heard. Later she wrote: "It is not one of my favorite songs, so I don't know why I heard that one. I finally got hold of a copy and played it on the piano...
More Real Than Memory. Dr. Pen-field's conclusion: "There is, hidden away in the brain, a record of the stream of consciousness. It seems to hold the detail of that stream as laid down during each man's waking, conscious hours. Contained in this record are all those things of which the individual was once aware-such details as a man might hope to remember for a few seconds or minutes afterwards, but which are largely lost to voluntary recall after that time...