Word: putting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakfast (mutton chops) was followed by an hour-and-a-half discussion of African problems, in which they agreed-as a communiqué later put it-that there is "cause of grave concern" because the Algerian problem has not been solved. With an effervescent Bourguiba tugging at his arm, Ike went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like...
...problems of surpluses. Rockefeller proposed a long-term "land-use program" similar to what the Committee for Economic Development advocated two years ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1957). Under this program, the Federal Government would rent entire farms for long periods, take the land out of crop production and put it to "such uses as reforestation and conservation." As a "start," Rockefeller urged retirement of some 30 million acres in addition to the 20-odd million acres already in the soil bank's conservation reserve. To supplement the land-use program, Rockefeller proposed a rural "job-opportunity program" to help...
...police did not jibe with demonstrable facts and sworn testimony, and that in their similarity they clearly proved a conspiracy to thwart the law in a reasonable inquiry. In the early afternoon of Nov. 14, 1957, he contended, the racketeers spotted police around Barbara's place and promptly put together their common alibi; each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop in on ailing Pal Joe Barbara...
...directed the case of The People of the State of Illinois v. Roger Touhy, and won Roger Touhy's undying enmity. Through two long, sensational trials and until his death, Touhy claimed that the kidnap rap was a frame-up by the Capone gang and corrupt officials to put him away permanently. His sentence: 99 years...
With the outspoken support of the British (who did not want to share a favored position) and the smaller NATO powers (who did not want to be further left out), the U.S. ignored De Gaulle's proposals. Partly to put pressure on Washington, partly because he is convinced that "France must defend itself by itself and in its own fashion," De Gaulle retaliated by striking at the foundation stone of NATO strategic planning: the concept of an integrated, internationally commanded defense force...