Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower next day, in a statement aimed toward Russia: "All Americans sincerely hope that other scientists in other countries will be encouraged by their governments to do similar research. As these and other experiments continue, the adoption of a worldwide atoms-for-peace program becomes more inevitable to permit all scientists to devote their skills and energies to the betterment of mankind-not its destruction...
Dulles moved on to blunt the newest anti-Dulles campaign: the argument that he is too rigid an anti-Communist to permit a parley with the U.S.S.R. "The truth is quite the contrary," said he. "We do want a summit meeting provided the proper conditions obtain. " The proper conditions: preliminary meetings, held in secret at diplomatic levels, in which the possibilities of real agreements can be explored and in which the sense of urgency of the free world need not be let down. Said Dulles: "There are, I know, many who feel that the cold war could be ended...
...military government authorities on Okinawa moved two months ago to remove a political irritant-skinny little pro-Communist Kamejiro Senaga, mayor of Okinawa's capital and chief city, Naha. The method: Lieut. General James E. Moore, U.S. High Commissioner, rewrote Naha's laws to permit the city assembly's conservative majority to oust the mayor on a vote of no confidence, then effectively barred his re-election by decreeing that no convicted felons could hold office (Senaga was jailed by the U.S. authorities in 1954 for harboring a Japanese Communist...
...passenger problem, in the railroadmen's view, are Government controls that prevent the railroads from cutting their freight rates to competitive levels, thus letting much of their freight business go to trucks. Baltimore & Ohio President Howard E. Simpson argued that Congress should pass a law to permit transportation systems to cut rates "irrespective of the effect upon competing modes of transportation...
...agreement will permit interested universities to exchange graduate students and professors, 20 students being involved the first year and 30 the next. Students will probably complete a full academic year in Russia, but faculty members will only be away for a term or less. Universities besides Harvard eligible for participation include Columbia, Chicago, California, Indiana, and Washington, all of which have centers for Slavic studies...