Word: actions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapidly developing country like Nigeria, we see some peculiar paradoxes. We saw one of these when the Action Group campaign helicopter landed on the road in front of our Mission compound here. The wind from the rotor almost tore the grass roof off a nearby house. It is probably the first time that "repair of grass roofs" might be listed as election expenses. The helicopter pilot mentioned that one disadvantage of the helicopter's use was the fact that it often attracted more attention than the campaign speech...
...recommendations for more Government action, the program stuck by the time-honored liberals' issues: an increase in social-security payments, stronger civil-rights legislation and higher minimum wages. Added suggestion: a U.S. National Peace Agency to ride herd on all programs designed for the pursuit of peace...
After cranberries, caponettes. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming took aim last week at the plump, premium-priced table fowl, gave them both barrels, and shot down the nation's entire supply. Behind his action lay some farfetched reasoning that the chemical used to caponize young chickens and make them into capettes or caponettes might conceivably induce cancer in the consumer...
Attorneys for the Corporation took the latest step in the Arnold Arboretum case on Wednesday, in filing an answer to an action pending before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In "Answer to Revised Information," the attorneys set forth the University's position in a controversy which has existed since the early...
...court, the highest in the state, has taken no action as yet upon the Corporation's reply. Warren F. Farr, an attorney for the University, feels that the next step will be an informal hearing before a court-appointed master...