Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a recalculation in Washington stripped Lebanon of its exclusive little glory. No malice intended, said the geodesists, but with the addition of 586,400 square Alaska miles, the balance would have to move 439 miles northwest -give or take ten miles-to the vicinity of Two Top Peak, a butte eleven wagon-trail miles west of Castle Rock...
...Secretary of State cannot make treaties without Senate approval, but a U.S. aide explained that Dulles had, in effect, only done something like signing agreements with three nations individually. The importance of the move, said the aide, was chiefly psychological, since the U.S. is already pledged to aid Turkey under NATO, Pakistan through SEATO, and Iran under the congressional resolution known as the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...Drive, four miles from the Medical Center), that the society should partly staff it and get one-third of the seats on its board. Result: every time Baylor University and the city fathers got set to start a new hospital in the Medical Center, the county society blocked the move. Last month, flexing its muscles, the society forced a city referendum on the issue. At week's end the voters ruled. 40,600 to 37,900 for the Medical Center site...
...Committee, whose members formed a special committee to keep Europe's oil flowing in 1956 during the Suez crisis. Present purpose: to keep oil coming in case the fields in Iraq-or any other Arab land-should be suddenly shut down. Said Seaton: "We must be prepared to move, and move quickly...
Common Census. In Douglas, Ark., Lee Edward Whitney, 84, decided to move away, changed the town's population from...