Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business activity which began in the second quarter of last year will be extended in the months ahead." Happily ticking off the indicators of a recession-recovered economy, he felt free to concentrate on the foe-inflation-which he has consistently named as the chief threat to long-term U.S. economic health...
...staff of the leadership office he lost to Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican Congressman Carroll Kearns, onetime Chicago Symphony soloist (baritone) fights a lonely battle for his muse on lawyer-dominated Capitol Hill. Says Kearns, who, at the request of Secretary of State Dulles, recently conducted four Air Force Symphony concerts in Iceland: "If I could put a Sputnik into...
...more than 17,000 the number of Norfolk children who have been denied public school education since last September, when six white secondary schools were closed by Virginia's massive-resistance to Federal District Court integration orders. ¶ In Little Rock, Governor Orval Faubus, beginning his third term, called for a state constitutional amendment that would turn over state and local education funds to school districts which, in turn, would dole funds to each student. Pupils would then use the money to pay for their schooling elsewhere. And a state legislative committee, finishing its investigation of the integration crisis...
...King could not see this fine distinction. Fortnight ago he broadcast a message to the rebels, and Moroccan air force planes showered reprints of the speech on the mountain slopes. Using the term "mutiny" and quoting from the Koran to warn of "cruel punishment" to come, the King gave the dissidents 48 hours to come down from the hills and surrender...
...near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President, Prío had grafted a fortune; he promised to back Castro with arms and cash...