Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purpose of the lines is to prevent any future construction from interfering with plans for widening the heavily-traveled street. Present buildings would not be affected by the recommended ordinance but their replacements would have to be set back as much as five feet from the present building line...
...South was led down the blind alley of blind resistance by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus in September 1957, when he spurned both federal law and the sober advice of fellow citizens in his attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance...
...force. The problem bedevils Betancourt most in Caracas (pop. 1,000,000), where an estimated 70,000 are out of work. Just a fortnight ago, a few hundred demonstrators snowballed into a wild march of 15,000 unemployed toward the presidential palace. Only tear gas stopped them short. To prevent similar embarrassment during inauguration week, the lame-duck government banned demonstrations of any kind...
...United States intervened to prevent the signing of the non-aggresison treaty and worked instead for an Iranian-American military agreement, a Soviet statement declared...
Federal assistance to higher education, especially long-term, low-interest loans, is welcome. As colleges are forced to expand, their financial aid resources are spread thinner and thinner. But, to prevent the Program from becoming a farce, Congress should amend the Act to provide a workable method for determining actual financial need, while insuring colleges against unwanted Federal control...