Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, 79-year-old Prime Minister Daniel Malan, D.D., surprised the House of Parliament with this flat statement: "The Commonwealth gives us the greatest freedom we could wish for . . ." He even cited India's example to prove that South Africa could become a republic (as his Boer Nationalists insist) without leaving the Commonwealth...
...cents per kw-h compared to .008 cents per kw-h for coal power. Since the return from electric sales would cut down the cost of making plutonium, the Government would get it cheaper than at present. Other businessmen, such as Detroit Edison's President Walker L. Cisler, insist that they need no Government help. As soon as Congress lets in private industry, Detroit Edison and 25 companies now joined with it in studying commercial atomic power are ready to stake upwards of $50 million to build an atomic-power plant without Government help. The use of plutonium...
...active ingredient in the brew made by the Navahos from peyote buttons, which medical missionaries condemn (TIME, June 18, 1951), though some anthropologists insist that the stuff is harmless and none of the missionaries' business...
...anyone who would listen of the injustices suffered by Cambodia under the French colonial system. Said he in Manhattan: "In economic matters they have our hands and feet tied; we cannot import and export freely and we have no freedom of taxation. Our police cannot touch them." The French insist on taking Cambodian troops under their command, said Norodom, and he warned: "If we have an invasion of the sort that Laos has suffered recently, I am not at all certain that I can call for a general mobilization as did Laos. If there is a menace, the people will...
Columbia's new president, in a speech delivered March 12 at the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the University of Pureto Rico, said no university should oppose investigations but should insist they be handled fairly. They should not be used by "demagogues who may seek to use an indiscriminate smear campaign in order to further their own selfish political ambitions." Kirk claims he "...would not support the view that he (a teacher) should be automatically and summarily dismissed for refusing to testify. However, he discourages invoking the Fifth Amendement, since"...a professor, like his university, bears some burden...