Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Security Council convened in extraordinary session to consider Lumumba's appeal. To avoid any charge of colonialism, the U.S. had earlier turned down an appeal to send U.S. troops. Behind the scenes, U.S. Delegate Lodge argued that the Congo problem should be solved by Africans, backed a Tunisian resolution that authorized the dispatch...
Saving Instinct. German campers have made the three-hour cup of coffee a way of vacation life. In Italian cafes, they sit six deep around a cheap bottle of vino nero, dawdle away an afternoon for 30?. Tip-conscious waiters avoid them like the plague, comment sardonically: "They have more money than other Europeans. Naturally they want to save...
...first President, Makarios will have to learn to get along not only with the British but with restive Cypriot factions. To avoid a disruptive election campaign, he has already allotted five of the 35 Greek seats in Parliament to the Communist AKEL, which has a 30% popular backing and is certain to prove a troublesome minority. Under terms of the London agreement that ended the fighting, the Turkish population (20% of Cyprus' 500,000 people) gets 15 Parliament seats and 30% of all civil service jobs. Last week the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, threatened to delay...
...condition used to be untreatable, and usually caused death before age 20. Now, with the aid of heart-lung machines, it can be corrected. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal of a case at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, Drs. Richard L. Golden and Charles A. Bertrand try to avoid the technical designation of "total anomalous pulmonary venous connection." They call the condition simply "snowman heart." Who coined the term is unclear, but it is especially apt. In the X ray, the enlarged, misshapen heart casts a distinctive white shadow shaped like a snowman...
...Paris hospital, he set out for Rome, where he filled notebook after notebook with sketches of ancient ruins and nearly starved to death. Once, when the Vatican was at odds with Cardinal Richelieu, papal troops tried to beat the Frenchman up. He caught syphilis, and partly to avoid further temptation, married the daughter of the pastry cook who nursed him back to health. The disease left its mark-trembling hands and eventual paralysis-but at 45 Poussin was at last being hailed as France's Raphael...