Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here a great opportunity will be won or lost-an opportunity to ensure peace under law. We lawyers must write the necessary legal machinery. To do this we must evaluate world law and develop new international legal machinery to maintain essential national sovereignty, yet provide for the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations under the rule of law." So doing, the U.S. could build on the experience of the past and the possibilities of the present to ensure a peaceful future...
Under the terms of the "Preliminary Statement" (which was written for the Faculty Committee on the Theatre), the standing faculty committee-to-be will be able to reject plays unless "it is satisfied that the plays proposed meet the standards this university should maintain." "Proposals for the production of plays may originate with student groups, with members of the University faculties, with members of the Cambridge community or with the standing committee." If Professor MacLeish's statement is adopted, the faculty and its committee should use these powers of proposing and rejecting with discretion, i.e. seldom or never, keeping them...
...dispute over German financing of the British army on the Rhine (the British argue that until wealthy West Germany gets its own NATO army, it should help pay the costs of others who protect it). To settle the issue, the British retreated farther than the Germans. They promised to maintain about 50,000 troops on the Rhine till 1961, and instead of the $132 million in support that they wanted for this year alone, they accepted some $100 million spread over three years' time. To soften the impact in Britain, Germany agreed to deposit $140 million in London...
Both Whitehead and his opponent of the white-supremacy Dominion Party-Jack Pain, a bluff and genial Bulawayo accountant and city council member-left no doubt that they wanted to maintain the white man's unfettered rule over the blacks, who outnumbered them 13 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead...
...Committee would be given the right to "approve plays for production when it is satisfied that the plays proposed meet the standards this University should maintain, and that the proposers, when the proposal originates with student groups, are ready and able to carry their plays through with such aid as they can be given...