Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...District Judge M. Edward Viola yesterday ruled there was reasonable grounds to conclude that a violation of election laws had taken place. He ordered the inquest and placed the original complaint--by a shut-in woman--into the public records...
...board cannot point to any single issue of any consequence whatsoever upon which the parties are in agreement." Next morning Assistant Attorney General George Cochran Doub boarded an Air Force plane for Pittsburgh, steel capital, to argue the U.S.'s case for a Taft-Hartley injunction before District Judge Herbert P. Sorg...
...Pentagon Research Director York, do not have experience in the tough kind of getting-things-done that the occasion demands. One way to resolve the space tangle once and for all would be to set up a unified, civilian-military space organization similar to the World War II Manhattan District in which scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer developed the A-bomb under the get-things-done command of the Army's General Leslie Groves. A get-things-done type from the military today would be of the caliber of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay...
...week's end word reached New Delhi that Chinese and Indian troops had clashed in their bloodiest border battle yet. "Now the fat is really in the fire," cried one Indian official. The fighting took place, New Delhi announced, at a place called Hot Springs in the district of Ladakh, 45 miles from the Kashmir-Tibet border. When two Indian constables failed to return to their camp from a patrol, a searching party of 60 to 70 Indians set out to look for them. From a hilltop Chinese troops opened fire. The Indians fired back, but were soon scattered...
...trams, German and Italian accents now mingle with the cockney-like drawl of Old Australia; a ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread-dark or white-now sells 97 varieties...