Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fussed around supervising the workmen who bolted together his great crablike stabile Le Guichet (The Ticket Window) in the plaza of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. "I don't see the beauty of it," sniffed one worker. Neither had City Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris, who tried to veto the Calder stabile last spring because "art is supposed to transmit thought. Unless it does, I don't get it." But the art certainly transmits Calder, and he ventured the thought that his vertically planed piece was a lot more "pigeon-proof" than the giant Reclining Figure by Henry Moore...
Financial Veto...
Continued success in maintaining peace, however, depends largely on the operation of the Soviet Union, Martin said. Russia, along with France, maintains that contributions requested from it for peacekeeping purposes are either illegal or optional, Martin explained, and it is imposing a "financial veto" on U.N. peacekeeping efforts...
...means Martin proposed for insuring the continued effectiveness of U.N. peacekeeping efforts is maintaining the prerogatives of the General Assembly. He argued that because of Russia's veto power in the Security Council, peacekeeping operations should not be concentrated there...
...silent, too. Ever since he started dating Luci last summer, friends have been kidding him about not getting drafted, but now he is putting a stop to that by going on active duty soon, probably in the Air Force Reserve. A lot of people thought they detected a presidential veto in what the White House staff called "the Luci matter...