Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressure from the state legislature forced the administration of the University of Texas to withdraw a Negro student from the cast of the college opera: Dido and Aeneas...
...Ambassador Richards read his comeback orders, Washington flashed a new order to the Sixth Fleet. From the Pentagon to Fleet Commander Charles Randall Brown went the word: Mission accomplished; withdraw to the Central Mediterranean. Within hours "Cat" Brown and some 30 of his warships-including the giant carrier Forrestal-had pivoted hard west and were headed for Italian waters, where they will join in NATO exercises this week...
Advance was not quite the word of the day: there were some more worried by retreat. The continental nations were irritated by the British decision to withdraw some 13,000 troops from Europe within a year and to put their chief reliance in nuclear weapons. France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau argued heatedly that unless conventional forces were maintained, NATO would have to use nuclear weapons in even a minor defensive action, and thus might touch off an atomic holocaust. Norway and 'The Netherlands were also worried about having nothing but nuclear eggs in the basket. Aware...
Israel matched Egypt shout for shout, threat for threat. The Egyptian move to take over Gaza's civil administration was a long way from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
BILLBOARD BAN along new 41,000-mile U.S. interstate highway network will be asked by Eisenhower Administration. Plan is to withdraw some of federal road-building subsidy from states that refuse to pass laws requiring a 750-ft. sign-free area on both sides of the road. But plan will get fight from unions, sign companies, motels and farmers who rent land for billboards...