Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...based team could send a missile from moon to earth in considerably less than two days. "The improvements in space and missile technology that will be required actually to put a man on the moon will perforce include the means for reducing moon-to-earth transit times to the order of hours [and perhaps] minutes...
Provenzano's plans would have succeeded but for Manhattan Lawyer Godfrey Schmidt. 56, who resigned from the court-appointed national board of Teamster monitors last July in order to carry on his anti-Hoffa fight in the locals. Schmidt went before Federal Judge Thomas H. Meaney in Newark, charged that in the October meeting Local 560 insurgents had been denied protections guaranteed by Landrum-Griffin. Meaney slapped Provenzano with an injunction that adjourned all union business meetings until the insurgents could exercise those rights. Result: Provenzano's forces caved in, last week signed a court stipulation postponing...
...ministers of France's Fifth Republic seated themselves in gilt armchairs in scrupulous order of rank in the half-darkened Salle des Fêtes of Paris' Elysée Palace. As they did so, lights flooded the pink brocade curtains at the entrance to the onetime royal box that overlooks the room. Precisely at the stroke of four, white-gloved hands parted the curtains, and Charles de Gaulle, blinking against the lights, appeared in the box to open his second press conference since he became President of France eleven months...
...questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...
Over the centuries, the pattern hardly changed-until the tides of African nationalism began to lap even at the borders of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon. Though the Belgians never seriously interfered with the old order, the schools they opened gave the Muhutus some new notions about their old masters. In 1957 the Muhutus even formed their own political party. The Watutsis in turn also organized, began badgering Brussels to give them autonomy at once while they still had the Muhutus firmly under their thumb. The last thing they wanted was for Brussels to push through...