Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...court last week, Djamila appeared pale and drawn, but otherwise showed no outward signs of ordeal. Faced with a national uproar, the French prosecutor requested a delay "to gather further evidence." Her trial postponed, Djamila was led from the courtroom back to her cell -to wait...
Even after the delay, it made its point: that the Atlas can reach any target in the world from hardened bases in the continental U.S. And it proved that the missile has enough extra boost to indulge in a roundabout, enemy-confusing route...
...protested against the treaty. By his coup Kishi assured that the treaty would become law on the day (June 19) President Eisenhower is scheduled to arrive in Japan. For the constitution provides that if the upper house (where Kishi's majority is even bigger) should for some reason delay its approval, any measure passed by the lower house of the Diet becomes law automatically after 30 days. But the Socialists were so infuriated that they promised to make things unpleasant during Ike's visit...
Weather Watch. Powers took off from the U.S. Air Force base at Incirlik, near Adana, Turkey. April 27, flew to Peshawar, Pakistan. There he fidgeted nervously, waiting to leave on his biggest mission ever. The demands of diplomacy scarcely figured in the delay; he was looking for perfect weather. He was watching for that rare day when everything would be ideal, when winds aloft promised the necessary boost along the 3,500-mile flight across the Soviet Union toward Norway, when cloud cover would be at a minimum and there would be so little moisture in the upper air that...
...four-year delay points up one of the chief accusations against CAB: that it takes forever to decide even routine matters. Such indecision has hobbled the industry just when it needs fast action to deal with the new economic and regulatory problems of the jet age. During the first quarter of 1960, U.S. domestic trunk lines lost $24 million, v. a pretax profit of $16 million for 1959's first quarter. Bad weather and a spate of crashes account for some of the gap, but most of it is due to two major problems facing the airlines: fares...