Word: keep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Salan was peremptorily summoned to Paris. ''I shall return," proclaimed Salan as he took ship for France. "If our goal is not to keep Algeria French, our struggle has no meaning." But in Paris, Defense Minister Pierre Messmer brusquely forbade the general to go back to Algiers. The order, he explained, was a decision of the "entire government." i.e., presumably De Gaulle himself...
...week Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru flew into Karachi on his first visit in seven years. The occasion: the signing of an Indo-Pakistani water treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries (the U.S., Britain...
...were implored "not to giggle with a hand over their mouths, hang their heads and look downward without answering." This practice is considered a delicate expression of maidenly modesty by the Japanese, but a Westerner might "suspect he is being teased." Finally, "a lady should always be careful to keep her knees together when sitting. A lady should never squat...
...Danville, Va. There he held his last cabinet meeting in a local mansion, which proudly endures as "the last Capitol of the Confederacy." The old mansion has another use: it is the Danville Public Library. Last week that function was all but forgotten in a remarkable "integration" plan to keep readers with black skins off the premises...
...there, Negro high school students tried to use the whites-only library. Danville (pop. 35,000) promptly padlocked the place along with the smaller Negro branch two blocks away. When a federal judge ordered the library reopened on an integrated basis, the voters in a special election decided to keep it closed. A scheme to open a "private" library for whites proved impractical since the books belonged to the public, including Negro taxpayers. Danville has no real bookstore, and some of the citizenry began to miss books. They pressured the city council to reopen the library...