Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gradualness of the process that narrows the coronary artery concerned. If it constricts slowly for months, the heart brings into play its self-repair system and develops collateral circulation, i.e., nearby branches enlarge to carry more blood to neighboring parts of the heart muscle. Thus when the final shutdown comes, its original blood flow has already been diverted. In cases like the President's, the collateral circulation has to develop after the attack...
...down en tirely the country's leading Liberal paper, El Tiempo* Reason: El Tiempo's Editor Roberto Garcia-Pena had rejected an army order to print, as his own statement, a rebuttal to criticism he had leveled at the government. When foreign newsmen filed stories about the shutdown of the internationally respected El Tiempo, they were told that their dispatches would again be censored...
...Members of opposition parties openly passed out propaganda leaflets on the streets. Jails are slowly regurgitating political prisoners. Argentines no longer glance over their shoulders before reciting an anti-Perón joke. Last week's Perón's press secretary announced that a shutdown Catholic newspaper, El Pueblo, may publish again, added that the authorities will no longer ban foreign magazines, no matter what they print about Argentina...
...After three years of shutdown and stalemate at Abadan (caused by the stubborn egotism of 1951's Man of the Year, Mohammed Mossadegh), Iran agreed to let foreign firms (chiefly British) resume operating the Iranian oil industry, which the Iranians were incapable of operating...
...Missouri, he enlisted as police reporter to earn money for college. "I had to cove some grisly sights," he reflects, "and I didn't like the idea of newspapers compromising ethics and advertising." Writing continued to intrigue him, nevertheless, and it was only a temporary shutdown of Missouri University's Journalism School that tempted him to try astronomy...