Word: standings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland declared last fall than he spelled out plank No. 1, a right-to-work law. Other major Republicans, e.g., Goodie Knight, oppose right to work, as do the Democrats. Labor unions have urged their memberships to vote Knowland down. Will he be buoyed or buried by his stand...
...effective government. In the National Assembly Pflimlin won "victory" after "victory''-including a committee vote approving his hastily drafted plan to revise the constitution so as to give the Fourth Republic stronger, longer-lived Cabinets. But when it came to the issue on which his government must stand or fall-its ability to re-establish control over the insurgents of Algeria-the only tactic Pflimlin found was to pretend that the insurgents were not really insurgents...
...want to go to the effort of designing one of their own, they merely copy it (the Russian cash register, based on early National Cash Registers, even has National's own seal design on the back). But in the areas that matter to them, they stand on their own, and nothing bothers Western scientists more than the widespread delusion that Russia got where it is today solely because of its captured German scientists and its stolen secrets...
...rebel in a yellow sport shirt, asserted that his followers were only Lebanese waging a Lebanese feud against a ''tyrant" President who planned to use the two-thirds parliamentary majority he won in last year's "rigged" elections to change the constitution so that he could stand for re-election when his six-year term expires in September...
...intelligence reported that a Nationalist Chinese battalion had landed in North Celebes to help the beleaguered rebels. Ambassador Jones knew that the report was absurd, but he also got the diplomatic point. Sukarno was demanding that the U.S. stop being "neutral" about the Indonesian civil war and take a stand...