Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaker was Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy, a much-talked-about contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. In a speech to a Jefferson-Jackson Day fund-raising dinner in Omaha, he called on the U.S. to help Communist Poland maintain its independence by granting the Poles' request for $200 million in U.S. agricultural surpluses (TIME, March 25). And in making his point, Democrat Kennedy took on the argument advanced by Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland that such aid might strengthen the Communist bloc...
...central Africa, just to the south, in a desperate race against time, the blacks, whites and Asians of British Rhodesia and Nyasaland are trying to learn how to submerge their differences in a common federation, and experimenting with graduated extension of the franchise so that the outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur them on, the white masters in the remaining territories of Middle Africa are plunging headlong into an uncertain future, making concessions usually a step behind the demands-and sometimes...
Fenyvesi left Hungary in December after he had participated in the anti-Communist People's Guard, which helped to maintain order in Budapest during the Revolution. "I looked very warlike," he remarked, during his visit here...
...does use "chemex" percolators, however, besides the venerable copper arrangement, through which she filters the basic grind for many of her blends. "Salesmen have offered me modern replacements," she notes, "but I wouldn't change it. Tulla herself is a product of European coffee hospitality, and Cook tries to maintain the "civilized tradition" of the European coffee houses...
Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Department of Athletics, said that the income would be used to "maintain the sport exactly as it is run at the present time. The income will help to run the sport, and no changes are planned at present," he said. Coach Edo Marion said that the gift would provide "great encouragement to the Harvard fencers and would be useful in such things as purchasing new equipment...