Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near week's end the committee adopted the only practical defense against the tormentor: it would go on with its work. Members voted 17-13 to keep in the bill most of the provisions Zagri opposed, even revised the hot-cargo section to make sure that it would control Teamsters without forcing legitimate strikers to go through picket lines. Scheduled for final committee vote this week-and near enough to the Senate version to have a good chance of becoming law-the labor reform bill was a stronger piece of legislation than it would have been without Zagri...
...hours last week. Wild Horse Annie told her story to 16 interested members of a House Judiciary subcommittee. The mustangs are flushed from their hilly retreats by low-flying airplanes, whose pilots pursue the animals across the prairies until they are near exhaustion. Then trucks take up the chase. Finally, the horses are lassoed with ropes weighted with truck tires or other heavy objects. The horses drag the weights around until they drop. Then they are hobbled, hauled into the truck. Wild Horse Annie documented all this with photographs that she took from the top of her car, while...
...about what they are, some are giving deep thought to the future. A chorus of liberal ayes greeted Columnist Walter Lippmann's recent definition of the mission of the Democratic Congress: "It would be to prepare public opinion for the future, which is not yet here but is near at hand. It would be to prepare public opinion for the decade of the '60s, which, assuming that there is no war, is bound to be an era of great innovation and development of our public activities...
Swedish seaside resort of Saltsjoebaden, near Stockholm, as 79 delegates from seven nations-Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-gathered to put the finishing touches to their own free-trade association, known familiarly as the "Outer Seven" (though some of its members think the name invidious). Recognizing, in the words of one British official, that "we simply cannot let the Common Market Six build up walls we may never be able to scale," the Outer Seven have decided to get their commerce into step with the Common Market. Thus their draft plan envisions a tariff reduction...
...Nearly three times the size of Texas, Libya is 95% arid rock and sand; 99% of its people are illiterate, tending sheep, camels and goats to eke out a per capita income of less than $100 a year. More than $85 million in U.S. aid has poured into Libya in the past eight years to help the young nation to its feet. There is a special reason for U.S. generosity: Libya's government, headed by its near-absolute monarch, King Idris I, permits the U.S. Air Force to operate Wheelus field outside Tripoli, the largest U.S. airbase outside...