Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Smokies he thumped Estes Kefauver for virtually every integrationist crime except the Emancipation Proclamation, denounced him for turning his back on Tennessee and the South by voting for the civil rights bill in the Senate last spring. "If I had been in the Senate, there would have been 19 instead of 18 Senators voting against the civil rights bill. Every Democratic Congressman from Tennessee voted against that civil rights bill, but Senator Kefauver voted for it.* Every state is entitled to two Senators. New York has two Senators to represent the people there, and I am tired of us supplying...
...Navy's Special Projects group was asked what it could accomplish with a supplemental $350 million. Can-Do Man Raborn took just a week of consultation with ship design and missile experts to produce an answer. If the Defense Department would settle for a 1,200-mile missile instead of the 1,500 mile that was in the works, he could give the fleet an operational system by 1960, a full five years earlier than planned...
Power & Light. In the face of Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba's wild shouts for help from Peking and Moscow, Hammarskjold quietly took charge. He did not wait for any nation to ask for a meeting of the Security Council; instead, using his authority under the charter's Article 99 for the first time, he called the Security Council into emergency session on his own motion. Obviously, if the great powers were allowed to send troops to the Congo, the cold war would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister...
...Instead of flying back empty, the airlift planes made short runs to Portuguese Angola and French Congo, and to such Congolese cities as Stanleyville and Co-quilhatville, loaded up with Belgian, British and American refugees and flew them back to Europe...
...achievement of animosity and profound dislike on the part of our people. We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us." Communist Sobolev got the point. Ecuador and Argentina sponsored a joint resolution to refer Roa's complaint to the regional Organization of American States. Instead of vetoing the proposal as he had threatened to do, the Russian abstained...