Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the guns roared over the sands of Sinai and the hills of Galilee, the U.S. and the Soviet Union worked in tandem to avoid a catastrophic confrontation. With a Middle East cease-fire in effect and the superpowers back from the brink, the Big Two have arrived at a definitive new crossroads in world affairs. Will they revert to the arid pattern of cold-war contentiousness, or will they make a concerted effort to shape new agreements not only on the Middle East but also on a whole panoply of world problems...
...doubt Marshall will be more liberal, though perhaps only slightly so, than the man he is replacing: Justice Tom Clark, 67, who retired last week after 18 years on the Supreme Court bench to avoid any semblance of conflict of interest now that his son Ramsey is U.S. Attorney General. Justice Clark, an undogmatic, plain-talking jurist, generally supported the court's civil rights decisions, but tended to side with the conservatives in cases such as Escobedo and Miranda, where the rights of accused criminals were involved...
...time being at least, most of the Arabs passively accepted Israeli rule. In some places such as Bethlehem, where the population is 80% Christian, the Israelis were openly welcomed. The occupation troops scrupulously tried to avoid incidents. Any soldier caught looting faced life imprisonment. Observed one Israeli Cabinet minister: "We Jews do not mount pogroms...
Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened its doors to the first American festival of Czechoslovak films-a moviegoer's feast of a dozen pictures never before shown in the U.S. Anxious to avoid their past neglect, commercial exhibitors snapped up five of them before the festival opened; more are almost certain to be booked. The distributors are making no mistake. Based on the festival evidence, it is clear that the Czech New Wave may soon reach tidal proportions. Four of the most interesting features...
...that the industry, with its immense catching capacity furnished by purse nets 200 fathoms long and ten fathoms deep, might have overfished, Otis Smith blames current shifts. "The cold belt now extends out 40 miles," says Smith, "and out there the water's too clear and the fish avoid the net." Aggravating the situation is the fact that fishermen, unable to net menhaden at sea, have moved into the spawning fields of Chesapeake Bay. According to Biologist Kenneth Henry of North Carolina's Bureau of Fisheries, 94% of the fish caught north of Cape Hatteras...