Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before signing, the Afghans had made a try at buying arms from the West. But the U.S. knows that its ally Pakistan would object violently if it sold arms to a neighbor that claims a lot of its territory, including the Khyber Pass itself. Besides, the U.S. has not taken kindly to Afghanistan's flirtations with the Communists. Already, Afghanistan's debt to Soviet Russia tops $120 million-quite a load for a country with a $25 million budget-and the latest deal will drive the figure higher...
...Government sets out to fire a rocketship past the pull of earth's gravity, and at the same time touch off the world's first T-1 bomb, which is too big to be exploded on earth. A girl reporter (Lois Maxwell, about the only structurally sound object in Satellite) stows away on the unguarded vessel...
...fact that I.O.C. President Avery Brundage was not promoting a new addition to the Olympic oath ["I am now, and intend to remain, an amateur"-Aug. 13]. He was reporting an amplification, not a change, of the pledge which has been in the rule book for years. The object is only to ascertain the intention of the competitor at the time of signing the pledge, there was "no surprise to learn that there might be athletes who could not predict their futures." Moreover, there was no "backtracking," only an explanation. The statement does indicate when "aspiring pros become illegitimate...
...Mediterranean, a place of serene blue skies for many, has been an object of ambition to an important few. The eight pages of maps that follow show the restless flow of conquest across this ancient sea: the days when it was Rome's mare nostrum, then Islam's crescent empire, at last the shared hegemony of three great empires-British, French and Ottoman. Now once again it is a fragmented place; there is no peace; and the Mediterranean is again the center of history and the clashing of rival ambitions...
...says, his songs are "all about women," and almost any one who listens receptively will agree. Duke is well qualified to discourse musically-or any other way-on the chicks, as he calls them. He has made a long and continuing study of the subject, and is himself the object of study by his subjects. As soon as he appears on a Harlem sidewalk, the street becomes crowded with chicks. The young ones merely ask for his autograph; older ones pass with glittering, sidelong glances beneath lowered lashes...