Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Leader of the repeal forces is hardworking Charles Rhyne, 48, past president of the A.B.A. (TIME Cover, May 5, 1958), and chairman of the A.B.A.'s Special Committee on World Peace Through Law. His case rests on one powerful point: if the world is to avoid war it must turn, step by step, toward the rule of law which promises orderly settlement of disputes through the administration of international justice. Under the terms...
There was no sign yet that the general wanted to become a dictator; he had simply underestimated the job. Ousted Premier Menderes left behind a ten-year record of budget deficits totaling $248 million, a foreign debt of $1.3 billion. To avoid bankruptcy, Gursel has canceled half of the 1,314 ambitious public works projects planned or under way in the Menderes era and has postponed work on acres of city rebuilding, including construction of fancy opera houses in Istanbul and Izmir...
...avoid an even bigger land bust than in the '20s, concludes HOUSE & HOME, cities and towns must act fast. Most experts agree that "the first point of attack should be to ease the too-heavy tax burden on houses and other improvements, multiply the too-easy tax load on unimproved land, and make the unearned increment in land prices provide much more of the taxes needed to provide the streets, water, sewers and schools without which unimproved land would be neither livable nor salable...
...because, she admits, "I get to giggling over how we must look." Vienna-born Dr. Raab could not care less how he looks so long as he is warding off what he calls "loafer's heart." Dr. Raab never rides in a car or elevator if he can avoid it, wears out six or seven pairs of sole leathers a year. Loafer's heart, he believes, is sapping modern man's strength...
...dictum-reiterated only last week in his letter to Macmillan-that he would never again sit down at a conference table with Dwight Eisenhower. At such a spectacular get-together of chiefs of state, Russia might find it easier than in a more professional Disarmament Commission session to avoid explaining why the self-styled champions of peace had stalked out of the ten-nation Geneva disarmament talks last June. And if the Disarmament Commission is prevented from meeting, it is prevented from urging the Russians to get back to serious negotiations...