Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...86th Congress convenes this week, Senate liberals of both parties see in the 1958 Democratic electoral sweep a mandate for civil rights legislation. But the path to civil rights-and, in fact to any legislation that a minority wants to fight to the death-is blocked by the prospect of filibuster. The liberals' first major effort, therefore, is aimed at changing U.S. Senate Rule XXII-under which it is virtually impossible to get cloture, i.e., to close off filibusters. What the Rule XXII fight is about...
...compromise was predicted. The likeliest prospect is for a change that would let two-thirds of the senators present and voting bring debate...
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 5--Provisional President Manuel Urrutia arrived in Havana late today, raising the prospect that martial law in Havana province and a prospective curfew for the capital would be lifted quickly...
...their inter-European trade. Without the cushion of automatic credits, all Western European nations-and especially France, which ran up a $460 million deficit in E.P.U.-will have to keep inter-European payments more closely in balance than before. Along with this consequence of convertibility went another risk -the prospect that any of the ten new "convertible" nations that fails to control its domestic inflation and maintain its exports at a high level will be faced with a deadly run on its gold and dollar reserves...
...profitable biological filmflam, tangle-maned Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot agreed to join Producer Raoul Levy in an undertaking of pith and moment: a series of educational movies designed to help the West "understand" the backward nations of Asia and Africa. To the regret of those piqued by the prospect of Bardot among the Zulus, Filmaker Levy decreed that swivel-hipped Brigitte's contribution would be limited: cash, but no carriage...