Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...strike. Red China recently settled its border dispute with Burma by abandoning its claims to Burmese territory south of the McMahon Line. Perhaps Red China would similarly confirm India's northeastern borders along the 700 miles of the watershed McMahon Line, if allowed in the northwest to keep the 9,000 square miles of Kashmir around Ladakh, where Red China has built a strategic military road running from its own Sinkiang province into Tibet...
...Commerce Extérieur, the state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able to keep its commitments to its Communist barter partners, has vainly sought loans from private French banks...
...with Frankie. Elvis, proudly wearing medals for good conduct and marksmanship, promised that he will soon climb back into his gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign effect upon him: he won't regrow his crazy sideburns...
Team of Horses. To keep the Celtics in top trim, referee-baiting Coach Red Auerbach, 42, allows his players only a few cigarettes and an occasional glass of beer, draws the line at whisky ("Any player that drinks it will be fined"). Auerbach dutifully drives his Celtics in frequent practice sessions; once, when he detected loafing, he sent the champions ignominiously puffing up and down the cliff-steep aisles of Boston Garden. But Auerbach himself is quick to admit that his coaching has worked no miracles: "Remember this-I've got some damn good horses." He has indeed. Guard...
...same time he is a shrewd entertainer who admits he will stop at nothing to keep his audiences awake. In three of his pictures he has shown a Shakespearean fascination with the life of the strolling player, the poor mountebank who, "like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven as make the angels weep." Clearly, he sees himself as such an ape. Says Bergman: "I perform conjuring tricks with a conjuring apparatus so expensive and so wonderful that any performer in history would have given anything to use it. I am really a conjurer...