Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer's tests at Eniwetok. (Somehow it never seems to flare when the Russians are testing.) Last week, as Washington waited for Russia to strike the propaganda pose of unilaterally halting its own tests, the British Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell, a likely future Prime Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from tests "many thousands of persons in the world will suffer agonizing death from bone cancer and leukemia." In Lausanne, Switzerland...
...pains that plague a modern city, none is more corrosive than juvenile delinquency, and the one city in the U.S. that has a giant's share of pain is New York. There, in the weltering tenements and public-housing complexes that pimple district upon district of the city's 299 sq. mi., roam the "bopping clubs," the teen-age street-fighting gangs. They call themselves Centurians, Demons, Villains, Stonekillers and Sand Street Angels, organize themselves with the precision of military combat teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted...
...Hamburg the executive committee of the powerful Trade Union Federation met for seven hours in an emergency session. Though it refused to call for a general strike (as some had urged), it called upon its 6,000,000 members to stage demonstrations against nuclear arming, came out in favor of a plebiscite on the whole question. As 48,000 names were added to an antibomb petition circulating through twelve universities, 500 students from the Hamburg Engineering School marched silently through the Old City with placards saying "Remember Hiroshima!" Dock workers in Hamburg and auto workers in Brunswick went...
First, it must enact a customs union of the islands. Tariffs are now a jumble. Antigua collects duties on goods in transshipment to St. Kitts. which in turn collects another duty upon arrival (smuggling is commonplace). Jamaica's industries are protectively walled off. will presumably suffer from competition from other islands. The new law will have to eliminate these barriers, create a common market, set common tariffs, provide for negotiating commercial treaties with other nations...
...third possibility is that, being vain even as other men are vain, he will accept the inducements that are offered to him from every hand, will bestow an indiscriminate blessing upon whatever enterprise will ensure him the prestige and perquisites which he feels...