Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FOREIGN NEWS). But the Geneva gloom was lightened by hopes of results from Premier Nikita Khrushchev's two-week visit to the U.S. starting in mid-September, Dwight Eisenhower's visit to the U.S.S.R. later in the fall, and the President's' trip this month to London and Paris (Bonn was added later...
...force or threat of force, 2) require local election officials to preserve for two years all records of election for federal offices and permit the Justice Department to inspect them, 3) extend the life of the federal Civil Rights Commission for two years beyond its expiration date next month. Earlier the committee (18-13) junked a proposed, tough section that would have empowered the Attorney General to initiate suits to protect civil rights, including the right to attend integrated schools. Also dropped was a section empowering the Federal Government to aid local school authorities with desegregation problems-a section that...
Last week, at the Beaufort (pronounced Bewfirt) Naval Hospital, where he is recovering from frostbite and shock, Pilot Rankin forecast, "I'll be back in the air in a month." But the Marine Corps had other ideas. The medics were not likely to certify him for duty that early, although his injuries seemed to be remarkably minor. Even if they did, Pilot Rankin's next duty, according to orders on the docket, will be a nine-month general-staff course at Quantico, where good officers get better and a pilot can still get enough flight time to keep...
NLRB Examiner John F. Funke decided that the pattings and improprieties had come a month before the men were fired and had been regarded as "trivial" by management at the time, thus could not be the reason for the firings. "Credulity," said Funke, "is a girdle that can be stretched only so far." Funke agreed that some employers would "sacrifice the immediate interest of their business to maintain a standard of propriety and decorum at which Victoria herself would not cavil," but, he said, Santangelo "could not be described as Victorian." Added Examiner Funke: "The contiguous employment of male...
...BUFFALO SOLDIERS, by John Prebble (256 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95], takes the reader back to the Indian territory (later part of the state of Oklahoma) in 1868, when the bit was tight on both horse and recruit. The pay rate for cavalrymen was "thirteen dollars a month, less twelve and a half cents deduction for the Soldiers' Home," and the odds against a man's getting back from a patrol were a little better than those for eventually getting to the home. The particular buffalo soldiers of the title are an ill-horsed detachment of Negro volunteers...