Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judged by the shrill cries of demagogic politician's. More important than the demagogues in the impending battle will be a band of solid Southerners who have already abandoned the old devices and clichés and are prepared to fight until doomsday with legal weapons to maintain segregation in their public schools. The day after last week's Supreme Court opinion, an editorial in the influential Richmond (Va.) News Leader made clear the nature of this opposition. Excerpts...
...forgiven, come home at once. If Tito was the devoted Communist he professed to be, what more could he ask? Khrushchev gilded his poisoned apple. The Soviet bases its relations, he went on reading, on "principles of equality, nonintervention and respect for sovereignty. The desire of Yugoslavia to maintain relations with all states both of the West and in the East has met with complete understanding on our part." Then Khrushchev returned to the theme his "Comrade", opening had set. "We consider it desirable to have mutual confidence established between our parties which base their activities on teachings of Marxism...
...forces in Europe to provide reinforcements for Africa. Last fall, over U.S. protests, they withdrew the equivalent of two light divisions to garrison Tunisia. To the U.S., which has promised to keep its five divisions in Germany, and to Britain, which reversed a policy of centuries by guaranteeing to maintain an army of 100,000 men on the Continent indefinitely, this was breaking a pledge...
...leaders met last week in Manhattan to discuss the outlook for the rest of the year. Things looked good indeed. In May the alltime monthly steel production record of 10,168,000 tons, set in March 1953, was topped. No one expected that the industry as a whole could maintain the current operating rate of an estimated 96.3% of capacity. Some time this summer, operations are expected to dip, possibly as low as 80% to 85% of capacity, then climb back in the fall...
...efforts to maintain the liberal arts tradition, Harvard, along the certain other universities, notably the University of California, has not followed this trend. In a system in which music is retained as one of the liberal arts, the approach to it as an art form deserving of scholarly research in theory and history is stressed over the more practical aspects. This has always been especially true at Harvard, where the department holds in its combined library facilities one of the fines music research collections in the country...