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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refusals made the Nasser statement hard for Britain, France-and even the U.S.-to swallow, since Western diplomacy had been bent on getting Nasser's signature on a treaty of some sort (see FOREIGN NEWS). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced in the U.N. Security Council that the U.S.'s "de facto acquiescence" was "provisional," depending on how the declaration "is carried out in practice." But as a U.N. diplomat put it in a corridor aside: "Since the U.S. doesn't want war and Britain and France don't want economic sanctions, the only thing...
...Congress appeared certain to pass the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. As late as March the Eisenhower Administration's civil rights bill seemed headed . for surprisingly smooth congressional sailing. But as Congressmen return from their Easter vacations, the civil rights package is in the deepest sort of trouble. The trouble is compounded of real fears about the principles of the bill and of shrewd Southern maneuvering against...
...Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which celebrates the fact that love is stronger than anything, have moved Parisian poets and musicians to confer on a Micheyl record the Grand Prix du Bisque, a sort of musical Oscar...
...usual apparent clumsiness and a kind of deliberate illiteracy, e.g., characterizing the Snopeses in general. Faulkner mixes five metaphors in about half a sentence: "[The Snopeses] accreted in from Frenchman's Bend into the vacuum behind the first one's next advancement by that same sort of osmosis by which . . . they had covered Frenchman's Bend, the chain unbroken, every Snopes in Frenchman's Bend moving up one step, leaving the last slot in the bottom open for the next Snopes to appear from nowhere and fill . . ." Thus Faulkner attempts to set a whole town talking...
Initially the agency would only serve as a sort of information center where members could benefit from the study of each others' advances in the peaceful uses of atomic energy--medicine, power, and transportation. The United States would still have security control over whatever knowledge it divulged. The nuclear material "bank" would come into existence later and the United States would meanwhile be free to refuse assistance if control and inspection measures are not to its liking. On the other hand successful measures to assure peaceful 'use might lead to greater international cooperation to limit military use of the atom...