Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These maneuvers troubled Pibul, because Sarit's resignation was followed by so many resignations from the National Assembly that it left the government's majority in doubt. Sarit & Co. insisted they would not cooperate with Pibul unless Phao resigned as police chief. At week's end, General Phao did just that, but remained on as Minister of Interior. This pleased everyone; it also served to strengthen a growing conviction that Premier Pibul, though his troubles with Marshal Sarit were far from over, was still pretty firmly in control, as he has been for 15 of the last...
...government last month ordered Mother Veronica to close her school. For one long, sleepless night she wrestled with the spirit of defiance. By 6 a.m. Mass, defiance had won. "I won't abandon my girls to illiteracy," said she. "They won't get my little girls unless they overrun me by brute force...
Among art sleuths, nothing raises the after-dinner pulse like, a good tale of a masterpiece rediscovered in an attic-unless it is a tale of one hung in full view for decades but unrecognized until the right eye spotted it. Last week the art world enjoyed both kinds of discovery...
...problem: increasing competition from foreign carriers, largely because the U.S. is letting more and more foreign lines get into choice U.S. markets. Last week, as Pan American World Airways inaugurated a long-contemplated polar route from San Francisco to Paris, the French government threatened to halt the flights unless its Air France got a similar route-and the U.S. State Department quickly said that it would consider the matter...
...shortage is not only a worry for the middle-income family but a grave problem for such cities as New York, Chicago, Kansas City, San Francisco. Urban redevelopment programs are in danger of collapsing unless better middle-income housing is developed. City planners realize that they cannot go on building low-income projects, which do not carry their part of the tax load, without balancing them with middle-income accommodations, which do. One reason for the flight to the suburbs-with its attrition of city revenues and business-is that families find it easier, once they have a down payment...