Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds, in the guise of helping him in his consolidation of power, have made four demands on him. The first was to denounce the Baghdad Pact, as he has just done. The second was to purge his army and his administration of people whom the Communists object to. This too is going on. The Reds demand vengeance against all who participated in the Mosul rebellion (TIME, March 23). Of the original junta of two dozen army officers who overthrew the monarchy, five have now been purged. About 120 officers above the rank of major have reportedly been retired. Thousands...
Recognition of East Germany. Strongly held U.S. view: no diplomatic recognition; the British do not object to giving East Germany control of the access corridors to Berlin so long as the Russians join in guaranteeing the right of access...
...mystery of the island was merely the most spectacular recent example of something that occurs almost daily throughout Mexico. By law, not a single item of pre-Columbian culture may be unearthed without permission; no pre-Columbian object of any value may be taken out of the country. Yet the collector's yen for these objects is so insatiable that local dealers, anthropologists, private Mexican collectors have become smugglers to fill the pipelines to the U.S. and Europe...
...cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like lumps of sugar! Stop resisting changeability! Be free! Live!" In the streets below, one man picked up a copy, read it, then shook his fist at the plane. Artist Jean Tinguely, 33, was delighted. "Some will say, 'very good.' Others will object. The overall result will be just what I wanted: total confusion...
...object tucked like a streamlined fledgling under the bomber's wing was North American's X-15 rocket-plane, designed as the U.S.'s first manned space vehicle. Leaving earth for the first time, it carried no fuel: Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 38, was in the cockpit scanning a host of instruments that judged the performance of the mated bomber and X-15, whether they flew well together at all altitudes without dangerous yaw or buffeting. The first test, as the three watching chase planes and the two closed-circuit TV cameras in the B-52 confirmed...