Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week the U.S. asked West Germany (which is forbidden by treaty to allow manufacture of atomic bombs) to classify the newest design as secret. But scientists say that the secret is already out. The Brazilian atomic energy commission already owns three early models of the West German machine, and an Amsterdam professor is designing others "for commercial purposes." When the U.N. Political Committee takes up the subject of disarmament this week, there should be a new urgency about the Big Four at last reaching agreement on controlling the atom...
...long dinner, Adenauer was sufficiently mollified, but his toast was a pointed answer to De Gaulle: "One must rise above national egoisms. The German people are convinced that they have started, with the French nation, on a way that will allow them to get away from narrow nationalism. Europe can survive only if it is incorporated in a vaster community, the Atlantic community." Debre replied soothingly: "It is important that the French should have the feeling that there is no peace, no freedom, no future, if France and Germany do not defend the same cause...
...doubled in 22 months of Castro. The peso, once worth $1, is down to 28? on the realistic black market, and Cubans with savings are on a buying spree to convert their depreciating currency to furniture, jewels, paintings, anything of value. They wonder, though, how long the government will allow them that freedom...
...Orleans' first-grade pupils is scheduled for Nov. 14, but only 135 Negro children have applied. All "integrated" classes will be segregated by sex. Even these minimal plans may yet be killed by Louisiana's guitar-twanging Governor Jimmie Davis, who insists that he will allow no integration...
...this must be done, of course. It would be tremendously valuable if young living in slum areas were relocated, through housing projects, in other parts of the city--and there have been some gestures in this direction. Still better would be a move to establish work programs which would allow the youths to move away from the city for long periods of time...