Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After listening to Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of Daley's doings, what I'm going to do on Nov. 5 is take a tranquilizer, go to the voting booth, hold my breath, think about something else, and push the button that says Nixon...
...democracy, Dubček was the symbol and hero of Czechoslovakia's will to be free. The circumstances of his arrival last week in Prague, after three days of negotiations in Moscow, illustrated the unyielding grip in which the Soviets and their hard-lining East Bloc allies now hold his land. Dubček's plane landed in secret at dawn. Bulgarian troops and tanks guarded the field, and Soviet secret police whisked him and his fellow reformist leaders in official Soviet autos to a temporary government headquarters in Hradčany Castle...
...order to consolidate his hold on the country, Argentine President Juan Carlos Onganía two weeks ago fired his army, navy and air force chiefs in a single, deft purge. The move rid General Onganía of a significant liberal military opposition and gave him near-absolute power for the first time in his 26 months in office. The officers he sacked were Lieut. General Julio Alsogaray, Admiral Benigno Varela, commander of naval operations, and Brigadier General Adolfo Alvarez, air force commander in chief...
This summer Epstein used federal and foundation grants to hold month-long seminars at Tufts University for 13 Negro teachers of molecular biology and physiology. He also brought in ten black freshmen from Tennessee A. & I. to take the experimental course. They came to understand the papers as well as his students at Brandeis, Epstein discovered, and they did so faster. This is partly because the method places more emphasis on understanding the scientists' techniques than on reading comprehension. One girl even suggested an experimental technique similar to one that had led to a breakthrough in molecular genetics...
...district court upheld the Dixie Diner's chub status, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit called the name change a "cynical canard." Said the three-judge panel: "To hold that it was an exempt club would make a mockery of the club exemption, pervert the congressional purpose, and legitimize a mere stratagem. Courts need not be so naive...