Word: washington
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...Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov echoed Secretary of State Herter's recommendation that "Antarctica should not become an object of political conflict and should be open for the conduct of scientific investigations." At week's end it seemed a foregone conclusion that the twelve nations meeting in Washington would wind up by signing a treaty embodying the two "high principles" of the original Eisenhower invitation: 1) a temporary freeze on the political status quo in Antarctica, and 2) an agreement to seal off the continent from any future war, hot or cold...
...four years, U.S. and Filipino diplomats have been jousting over the vexed question of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Last week, on the eve of his recall to Washington (to become an adviser to Secretary of State Herter...
Supplies come in by night aboard small planes flying out of southern Florida. The Castro government last week decreed a 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew on light plane flights, following up an official protest in Washington over the use of Florida fields by the anti-Castro rebels. ("So Castro thinks the flights can be stopped," retorted a U.S. border patrolman in Miami. "When he was fighting Batista, he bragged that 75% of his own arms shipments got through...
...Southern California (4-0)-crunched for 309 yds. on the ground to defeat unbeaten Washington...
...with leg-chopping power, tackling with burly fury. If the play was not made by End Marlin McKeever, it likely was made by his identical twin, Guard Mike McKeever. With the McKeever twins clearing the way, Southern California crunched 80 yds. in the final period to defeat hitherto-unbeaten Washington 22-15, proved itself the finest West Coast team in years...