Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...others, mostly Negroes, were arrested on state charges of conspiracy to disrupt trade and commerce. (Maximum penalty: eleven months and 29 days and/or $1,000 fine.) They were quickly bailed out; 16 Vanderbilt divinity faculty members posted bond for Lawson. Meanwhile, worried Mayor Ben West ("Please, let's avoid a blood bath in this community") met with a newly appointed bi-racial committee to seek a solution...
...Stevenson, Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey were reckoned at about 10% apiece, with no known support for Lyndon Johnson. After studying the results, Kennedy finally bowed out of the California primary last week-taking his half-loaf instead of stirring the wrath of California Democratic leaders, who want to avoid an expensive, party-splitting fight...
...Eisenhower's enthusiastic reception in India, but it did spread the notion-in a region worried by Red China's militancy-that one Communist nation is as peace-loving as can be. Red China seemed to be a subject that host and guest were anxious to avoid. When Sukarno wondered aloud why Asians would not be present at the summit. Khrushchev, obviously uneasy that his curmudgeon ally, Red China, might be the one to demand a seat most loudly, remarked: "Maybe the time is not yet ripe to arrange a more representative summit conference...
...didn't go back before to avoid increasing the Communist persecution of the mainland priests," said Cardinal Tien last week. "But now the situation could not be worse, and perhaps my return will give the Catholics moral encouragement...
...Homestead A.F.B., home of the Strategic Air Command's 823rd Air Division, corpsmen and nurses carried the vaccine out to flight crews and ground crews in the alert areas to avoid any break in their availability...