Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretary made these other main points in handling a shower of questions: 1. Red China should be barred from any summit meeting because it is not an. "indispensable or proper" authority to discuss world problems. The United States has no reason to the Peiping regime but would not hesitate to meet with its representatives if it would serve peace...
...main air bases near Maracay, 50 miles west of the capital, news of the arrests electrified Major Luis Evencio Carrillo, paratroop battalion commander, and a dozen air force officers of equal or lesser rank. Mostly U.S.-trained and democratically minded, they had apparently planned to rebel much later. Instead, New Year's Eve turned into a night of feverish speedup. From their barracks the paratroopers and others smoothly took over the city of Maracay (pop. 80,000) and the air bases. Before 6:30 a.m., two Sabre jets whined off to Caracas. Over Radio Maracay, the rebels announced...
...nearly a year they tested themselves and their tractors in the worst possible weather. Last Oct. 14 he set out from the Ross Sea base, led a supply train with four tractors up the Skelton Glacier to the ice-covered tableland on the far side of Antarctica's main mountain range. When he had established Depot 700 (700 miles from the coast), his job was done, but only about 500 miles separated him from the U.S.-occupied Pole...
Industry's rush to answer the school bell's call has taken two main channels: company-run or management institute schools that are often as large as small colleges, and special programs at universities and colleges to improve executive minds in more academic surroundings, perhaps the most famous company college is General Electric's two-year-old advanced management course, which is given at a $2,000,000 center at Crotonville, N-Y., 35 miles from Manhattan. There top executives from every G.E. division live together for 13 weeks, attending classes and eating their meals together, sleeping...
...Greek word for yes is neh, and in the main Author Lee is a great neh-sayer. He liked Hellenic warmth, individuality and liveliness (but not the oil-drenched cuisine). He was stirred by the keening, semi-Oriental laments known as Greek music and the sturdy acrobatics of the men's handkerchief dances in the tavernas...