Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...perennial proposals for reform fall into three general categories...
...potent new persuader: the seeds of a "Buy American" policy in the cuts in U.S. spending abroad decreed last week by Dwight Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But it was unlikely that the travelers would be obliged to brandish this weapon. Unable to blink any longer the sobering fall in U.S. gold reserves, U.S. allies around the world had at last begun to move to the aid of the Western giant...
...Internal Security Subcommittee investigation, withheld confirmation of his appointment as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. (Senators objected to his connections with the Red-infiltrated Institute of Pacific Relations and his editing of a 1949 State Department white paper which flatly blamed Chiang Kai-shek for the fall of China.) In effect, if not by design, Washington's nomination of Jessup to his new (and taxfree) null post constituted a final clearance...
...accompanied the entrance of four Negro first graders into New Orleans' McDonough and William Frantz elementary schools last Monday was the forseeable culmination of action begun last May. At that time U.S. District Court Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered the New Orleans school board to desegregate public schools this fall. When it became evident recently that the board, including its segregationist president Lloyd Rittinger, was going to comply with the order, the state legislature met in special session and passed resolutions resisting the court decree...
According to Watson, the Department of Athletics learned of the Band's practice when it assumed responsibility for chartering buses this Fall in order to take advantage of the University's tax exempt status and avoid the transportation tax. In the past, the Band has chartered the buses and sent the bills to the Department...