Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Most of New York went about its business with only a passing interest in the extra-thick traffic jams, but the fringes were crackling with antagonistic citizens and fanatic European émigrés who unfurled their banners and epithets with grim satisfaction whenever they got the chance. To keep these and the other hordes at safe distance, billy-twirling cops patrolled the approaches to the U.N., the streets and buildings where the guests made their headquarters, the avenues they traveled. Busloads of reserve police stationed themselves at strategic points and waited for alarms. Mounted cops assembled to ward...
Nixon and Kennedy agree that the farm mess is the U.S.'s No. 1 domestic problem in Election Year 1960-and well they might, since federal farm programs cost the taxpayers some $6 billion a year and still fail to keep farm income from drooping. Last week at a farm near Sioux Falls, S.Dak., the two candidates presented their programs for tidying up the mess-and, incidentally, bid high for the wavering farm-state vote. Occasion: the National Plowing Contest, an annual jamboree held in a different farm state each year...
...time past, many people, from John Foster Dulles to Nikita Khrushchev, have been inclined to assume that neutralism was the next thing to Communism. In fact, the neutralists are united only by a negative sentiment: Help us, but keep hands off. Rather than a reliable "bloc," the neutralist group is a cluster of ambitious and often impulsive leaders, most of them mutually jealous, many of them open rivals. Few show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans...
...yellow plaster house with a red tin roof on the outskirts of Leopoldville, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, 29, bit his fingernails, answered the telephone, coped with a stream of visitors, and tried to keep his three children (aged five, three, and nine months) from crawling off with state papers. In a big, three-story, official residence near the river, bespectacled Premier Patrice Lumumba peered out curtained windows, occasionally shouted invented communiqués to passing newsmen, and cried defiance at the world. On a grassy hilltop overlooking the foaming Congo rapids, stolid President Joseph Kasavubu huddled in his modern-design palace...
...French army brought De Gaulle to power largely because many officers thought he could end the war in Algeria and keep Algeria French. But De Gaulle has not ended the war, and though he systematically dispersed officers who later defied his authority in Algeria, he has not been able to quiet their doubts over his pledge to let the Algerians themselves decide Algeria's future...