Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-awaited Rogers Block demolition will begin this afternoon at 4 p.m. Mayor Edward J. Sullivan will lead a motorcade to the site where he and other officials will take part in a ceremony marking the beginning of the project...
...next war, cried Nikita Khrushchev last week, will be "fought on the American continent, which can be reached by our rockets." Khrushchev was presuming a long-term Soviet lead in 5,000-mile intercontinental ballistic missiles. His presumption ignored one fact: if launched from a NATO base on the European continent, a U.S. 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile has, so far as Russia is concerned, all the bang of an ICBM. Last week, in a major policy decision, the Administration decided to push toward allowing NATO that big bang, even if it means changing the McMahon...
...world law may eventually lead to a world state when the world becomes prepared for it. But the essential thing is a world legal order-a world regime of due process...
...wrote Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan in a censorship case last summer, "is a great and mysterious motive force in human life." Following the lead dictated by that statement, and citing that case (Roth v. U.S., Alberts v. California-TIME, July 8), the Supreme Court last week reversed the decision of a federal circuit court of appeals upholding the Chicago ban of the French movie The Game of Love...
Cooler friendships between the U.S. and three hemisphere neighbors seemed a sure result as the U.S. Tariff Commission began hearings this week in Washington on tariffs for imported lead and zinc. Heavy administration pressure was on the commission to raise the tariffs; President Eisenhower promised last August that he would request it to "expedite its consideration of the matter." Even before the hearings began, anguished complaints came from Canada, Peru and Mexico...