Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts and Arkansas (two), Maine, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi (one apiece). The one representative that Alaska gets with statehood will temporarily swell the House to 436, but the figure will fall back to 435 after the census reapportionment-which will not take effect until the 88th Congress convenes...
...anti-Westernism, buoyed up by Soviet arms, spreading inflammatory lies, preaching assassination. The British might warn Khrushchev, as Anthony Eden in a moment of crisis did once before, that British national solvency depends on ability to buy Persian Gulf oil for sterling, and that the British are prepared to take all necessary steps to protect its source...
...onrush of events had momentarily been stalled, but agitation everywhere continued, and nothing had been solved. Jordan was one sign of the danger. Should the British go home, leave Hussein to be ousted by Nasserites? In such a case Israel, its existence threatened as never before, might even take military action. British troops were thus holding the peace while accused of spreading war. Rather than accept a third Arab-Israeli war with its incalculable risks to the great powers (and its threat to his Nasserite friends), Khrushchev might prove willing to accept some kind of U.N. guarantee, not of Hussein...
Under the Stars. Occasionally, late at night, Wayne Powers would take a breath of fresh air at his doorstep. But mostly he stayed quietly indoors, peeping from behind the curtain, taking care of his pet rabbits, tending the children-Dorothy, Jimmy, Douglas, Harry, Freddy. In the birth certificates, Yvette listed the children's father as "unknown." The neighbors viewed the strange union with Gallic tolerance and were closemouthed with strangers. Three times in the 14 years French police came, looking for "a missing American soldier." Each time Yvette hid Wayne in a cubbyhole under the stairs. Back in Chillicothe...
News of Argentina's $1 billion worth of development contracts with foreign oil companies (TIME, Aug. 4) last week forced Brazilians to take a hard look at their own government oil monopoly, Petrobras. President Juscelino Kubitschek called the Argentine contracts "fabulous." Then he added pointedly: "Petrobras will be maintained, but any program to increase oil production well be wea received in Brazil...