Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flag can be hazardous. Hardly had the Doorman left Rotterdam when the Russians accused the Dutch of increasing the danger of war in Southeast Asia, the Australians (who occupy the other half of New Guinea) asked for an explanation, and Indonesia sent a formal note of protest. To avoid the probability that Sukarno would ask his neutralist friend Nasser to refuse to let the Doorman through the Suez Canal, the carrier was sent the long way around the Cape of Good Hope...
...receiving" schools that have space for 3,000 more students. The plan will be extended to elementary schools next year, and ultimately may involve 15,000 transfers. Will the sending schools continue to be neglected educationally, and will the receiving schools be swamped with poor students? To avoid either possibility, the board promised to keep a sharp eye on standards at both ends. Said Superintendent of Schools John J. Theobald: "The 1,000,000 kids in our schools are my kids-and I'm going to give them the best education I can give them...
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...
...entitled then upon his capture -a capture which it was bluntly his duty to avoid at every cost, including the final cost of death itself-to save himself in the way he did? Now I know it is seemingly a cruel thing to say that another man should die, if dying is the only way to protect his country. But millions of men, far less favored than Powers, have died when they had to die to maintain their duty. An intelligence officer has no more immunity from death, when death is required of him, than any exhausted infantryman...
...Virginia, where "massive resistance" has slowly turned to a "containment" policy of local option. One impetus: the experience of Norfolk, which closed all high schools in 1958 to avoid integration. One out of five students got no schooling at all, reported three University of North Carolina sociologists last week, and hundreds of parents felt "inconvenience and despair." Virginia's Pupil Placement Board has begun voluntarily assigning Negroes to white schools. Some 150 Negroes will be integrated this fall...