Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hour-long TV interview, Mississippi's unreconstructed Senator James 0. (for Oliver) Eastland urged Mississippians to vote for the Democratic ticket as well as for his own candidacy for reelection on the ground that solid Southern representation in the Congress would keep integration at bay. Boasted Democrat Eastland: as a result of his strong leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was able to stall or kill 23 civil rights bills in 1957 and 49 in 1960. "I don't always agree with Lyndon Johnson, but you have to give him credit. He took everything relating to integration...
...billion nuclear defense force independent of NATO. Adenauer wants no part of plans that would weaken NATO, and he produced a powerful argument: a private letter from President Dwight Eisenhower warning that any change in the structure of NATO might lead the U.S. to reconsider its commitment to keep U.S. troops stationed in Western Europe...
...might have saved his breath. At week's end the military court found all three men guilty, sentenced elderly Publisher Lei Chen to ten years' imprisonment with an additional seven years' deprivation of citizenship rights, sufficient to keep him out of politics until...
...whether he can impose his strong will on Brazil, which has become accustomed to Kubitschek's free-spending, money-printing ways. São Paulo city and São Paulo state were both small enough so that Quadros could exercise the in-person supervision needed to keep officials at work and honest. But the entire, sprawling nation is something else...
Tape Trick. The words are stored on magnetic tape in highly condensed code, and they race down from space so fast that 720 high-speed Teletype machines would be needed to keep up with them. The Signal Corps, of course, has no such Teletype brigade. Its trick is to record the satellite's signals directly on tape, then slow the tape so that normal machines can deal with the signals at their leisure. Beyond this operation, the satellite can be instructed to receive and transmit any message simultaneously. This permits communication on line-of-sight microwaves between places such...