Word: cutoffs
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...discourage other powers from developing atomic bombs (experts estimate that no less than 20 nations could develop their own bombs in the next ten years), the U.S. was urging that the three present nuclear powers accept a cutoff date when production of nuclear weapons will cease everywhere, and all nuclear materials will thereafter be diverted to peaceful purposes...
...Wayward Bus (20th Century-Fox) takes a pretty wild ride down a California cutoff from Tobacco Road. Danger: an unusual number of soft shoulders and hairpin turns. What's more, the plot of John Steinbeck's 1947 bestseller, which this picture generally follows, is almost as confusing and misleading, as the road signs in the back country it is set in. But somehow or other, Hollywood's Bus barrels lustily along until, just before the end of the trip, it hits the sawdust trail...
...military assistance to Marshal Tito in fiscal 1957 except for maintenance and spare parts. Congress also stipulated that the Administration cut off all aid authorized in previous years and still "in the pipeline," e.g., some $100 million in military hardware, including some 300 Sabre-jet fighter-bombers. The cutoff could be waived if two conditions were met: i) that the President, within 90 days after the bill's passage, certify to Congress that Yugoslavia was still independent of the Kremlin and intended to remain so, and 2) that continued U.S. aid be in the national interest...
...Society. The glad word from that echoing Greenwich Village cellar was: the Duke is riding high again. He displays a growing habit of holding earnest conversations with onlookers while playing the piano, and of even leaving the bandstand and meandering back just in time to give the final cutoff. But his band is practically reborn...
...Approved, by a 372-10-31 vote, a liberalized social security bill that would reduce from 65 to 62 the age at which women are eligible for benefits, give aid to disabled insured persons at 50, and continue benefits for disabled youths beyond the present 18-year-old cutoff. Still before the Senate Finance Committee for hearings, the legislation may not be completed until next year...