Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shah repaid President Truman's hospitality with a lavish dinner for 800 in the main' ballroom of the Shoreham-Hotel; the Iranian Embassy was too small to hold the dinner there. Said he: "The President is one of the finest men I ever...
...plants in their zone, the British had dismantled all but 74. Britain's Ernest Bevin insisted (and his colleagues agreed) that the remaining 74 must be removed, too. But of the 320 surplus plants, 112 were still largely intact. It was in this category that Germany's main hope of salvage lay. Bevin had grudgingly come around to the view that further dismantling of surplus plants, more than four years after war's end, would serve no useful purpose. France's Robert Schuman hesitantly agreed. If the Allied High Commissioners in their negotiations at Bonn...
Sweethearts & Five Stars. Communist troops have been as anxious as the British to avoid incidents along the border between the British enclave and Red China, which runs along the main street of Sha-taokok village (see cut). But Communist influence daily makes itself felt in the colony. Through labor unions, the Communists already have a grip on Hong Kong's light & power, transportation, docks and its telephone system. A typical crisis arose last week when a young Chinese telephone worker claimed he had been slapped by a British supervisor. The worker's union threatened to strike unless...
...years, China's commercial airlines - built and operated with the help of American personnel- had flown passengers and cargo through every kind of weather, across a land whose ground communications, always bad, were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
Hutchins was sure that he could. Chicago set up a college that was to give a basic liberal education by the end of the sophomore year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course divisions-the social, physical and biological sciences, and the humanities. Since students differed in ability, Chicago decided that they should be free to attend class or not and to go as fast as they wanted. All they had to do was to pass a set of broad examinations given...