Word: fall
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...even dangerous duty of helping to keep the scales of power in equilibrium. The moment these scales are badly tilted one way or the other, the neutrals are not only out of business, but war becomes inevitable." U.S. concern with Laos results from the fear that, should it fall into Communist hands, Thailand and all Southeast Asia would be instantly threatened...
...Laos' fall affected no one but itself, it might not matter. But on the tense border between Communism and the free world, only the strong can be truly neutral. The U.S. worry about Laos was not over its neutrality but its strength...
Seven autumns and scores of lawsuits after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional, the Southern Education Reporting Service last week issued a mixed progress report. For the first time, in fall 1960, the South opened its public schools without a shred of violence-not a single riot or bombing disturbed the peace. But not one Negro child as yet attends class with whites in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina or Louisiana.* And out of 3,095,345 Negro pupils in all Southern public schools, only 183,104 attend integrated classes in 1960. Compared to last year, the gain...
...would not be difficult to negotiate a full-scale arms control system in the Western hemisphere, Chayes asserted. Such a system would "give the United States a chance to experiment with inspection techniques." At present, "any South American government can get the atom bomb, and any can fall under the control of a Castro or a Peron." Chayes also suggested negotiating an "arms embargo for black Africa...
...Douglas had high words of praise for Senators Kennedy and Johnson. She called Kennedy "explicit and forthright on matters of disarmament and nuclear testing." Calling the issue of survival the most important this fall, Mrs. Douglas based her praise for the Massachusetts senator on the feeling that he is better able to cope with the great responsibility of preventing nuclear...