Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another area, Howard J. Phillips '62, President of the Council, announced preliminary plans for coordinating House drama activities in order to save money and avoid scheduling conflicts...
Also included in the plan was a proposal to systematize the scheduling of plays, to avoid having several given on the same weekend. Such a plan would be necessary to avoid equipment shortages...
...reaction at Melun proved your maturity. We were afraid you would disappoint us." In Manhattan Khrushchev hurried to get back on the revolutionary bandwagon, told the Algerians that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia and Morocco. Last week the Soviet freighter Fatezh arrived at Tunis with a cargo of machine tools, tractors, cars, clothes and food for the rebels. The second phase is scheduled to begin when the F.L.N. can take...
Dressing Down. Susskind managed to bring up nearly every subject of East-West difficulty from Berlin to the Congo, trying to avoid questions that would-as he put it later-"open a dialectical can of peas." But the peas soon spattered all over the screen, because Susskind insisted on talking to Khrushchev not as a reporter but as one statesman to another, and because he loaded his imprecise questions with long, patriotic declarations clearly designed to demonstrate Susskind's own political soundness (pressure against the show from all sides, including general dicta from the State Department, had produced...
...avoid a mere travelogue, Lamorisse built his story around a Quixotic professor out to demonstrate that a balloon is the ideal means of transportation. At the last moment, his grandson talks his way aboard. The eventful flight-they follow flocks of exotic birds, drop in on a bullfight-is followed by a supply car on the ground carrying the professor's comic assistant, a Chaplinesque caricature of gadget-addicted modern man, whose wine bottle is hinged within reach and who uses an automatic feeder so that he doesn't have to stop driving. One of Voyage...