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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambassador Bonsai has found himself in a diplomatic vacuum, unable to get in even once to present his views to Castro. Last week, his own patience gone, Bonsai finally forced a meeting with Castro by announcing that he was off to Washington next week for what the State Department called "more than routine consultations," i.e., to work out a stiff new U.S. policy on Cuba during a pointedly long absence from Havana...
...dinner at the home of Minister of State Raul Roa, and talked until 2:30 a.m. Bonsai had sore topics to fire away at, including 1) fair-compensation for the $300 million in U.S. sugar holdings now facing expropriation, 2) the 21% rate slash forced on the $272 million U.S.-controlled-Cuban Electric Co., and 3) the 87 U.S. citizens arrested over the past eight months...
...evening of overdue negotiations did not add up to any real change in the revolution's anti-U.S. slant. Sticking to the new tough line, the State Department last week decided to lift the citizenship of a key Castro aide, Ohio-born Major William Morgan (TIME, Aug. 24), on the grounds that he is a member .of a t foreign army. Similar action against about a dozen other U.S.-born Castro soldiers will follow...
Only recently have scientists realized that most of the universe is neither gaseous, liquid or solid. It is plasma, a lively, tricky, often dangerous state of matter whose distinctive characteristic is that its particles are electrically charged. Scientists call it "the fourth state of matter,'' because plasma follows its own peculiar laws, responding to electrical forces and creating them. The sun and stars are mostly plasma; so are many loose particles moving in space between them. In fact, cosmologically speaking, only in a few exceptional places does matter settle down and become electrically neutral. But since the human...
...Under orders from President Eisenhower not to spill the beans of Ike's private talks with Macmillan, Hagerty fell back on trivia, soon began sounding like a parody of himself. A sample Hagerty announcement: "I have one bit of hard news. Mr. Berding∣State Department press officer∣ was asked this morning if the President was sleeping in a four-poster bed, and the answer is yes, and also if he had ever slept before in a four-poster bed, and the answer is also...