Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locked in a closet-and indeed, one was. Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy spent the week behind closed doors, trying to work out a labor bill as a member of the House-Senate conference committee. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was openly fretting because his Capitol Hill duties kept him off the campaign trail-and out of the news. If Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington had done anything newsworthy in the last month, it had certainly escaped the attention of most observers. Adlai Stevenson, returning from Europe, again denied that he was a presidential candidate, again left...
Most seriously affected were the 13 hospitals in the blacked-out zone. Orderlies from Metropolitan Hospital rushed portable incubators carrying four premature babies 70 blocks downtown to Bellevue Hospital, where they were safely plugged in. Two nurses in Mt. Sinai Hospital kept an iron-lung patient alive by operating the respirator manually...
...blackout, it brought at least one strange and encouraging result. The blacked-out area included some of New York's toughest neighborhoods, where crime rates run high and the tensions of race and color flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said Tough Cop Kennedy...
Uganda, Tanganyika and Sierra Leone are all pressing for time commitments. Back in 1957 a Leopoldville politician kept shouting in my ear over the din of a cafe orchestra: "What we want is justice-the communaute Belgo-Congolaise." Now, only 19 months after the Congo's first municipal elections, the demand is for a wildly impractical schedule calling for territorial elections in December 1959, provincial elections in March 1960, and general elections and a whole parliamentary government by the following June. The dates whiz by in a blur...
...tough C.O.: tall, ramrod-rigid Colonel Robert Nunlist, 48, onetime member of Switzerland's General Staff, who was appointed commander in 1957. Nunlist felt that discipline had deteriorated during the long illness of the previous commander, set out to whip the troop into shape. His soldiers are kept taut with tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot him in the neck and shoulder. Before he collapsed, the bleeding colonel disarmed his attacker, who was turned over to the Italian police (the Vatican City...