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Word: provisionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though most of the Constituent Assembly members are Diem supporters, they did not accept his proposals supinely or find easy agreement among themselves. A relatively liberal document, the constitution nonetheless takes a realistic view of South Viet Nam's weakened national condition and the internal and external Communist threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Law of the Land | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

The Walkout. The notion that opposition political rallies are damaging not only to himself but to the New Turkey he is building, was the argument that Menderes used last week to ban them. A clause in his bill provides that in the case of people attempting to hold unauthorized meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Afraid of Criticism | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

His method was that favored by U.S. labor conciliators when all else has failed. The disputing parties were asked to sit in separate rooms beyond earshot of angry voices while President Manuti scampered between them. After seven hours he persuaded the Met to give its choristers a raise to $2.55...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The High Cost of Luxury | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

In spite of the pressing need for an eighth house, a hygiene building, a theatre, and other improvements amounting to 40 million dollars, there has been a general tendency to feel that all was pretty much all right at Harvard, while all was not quite right with the world. Several...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Year of Crimson Politicking | 6/12/1956 | See Source »

On the debit side, President Eisenhower was especially unhappy with the "unfortunate" requirement that about 5,000,000 bales of Government-held surplus cotton (for which the U.S. originally paid upwards of 32^ a Ib.) be dumped on the world market for, at most, 25^ or 26^ a Ib. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Farm Bill at Work | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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