Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...taxing personal incomes.) The plan promised all things to all men of all ages: by forcing the retirement of oldsters, it would create new openings for younger men and thus solve the unemployment problem; and by requiring every pensioner to spend all of his $200 every month, it would keep money in constant circulation...
Truce. By week's end business was far below normal in Jacksonville, Governor LeRoy Collins had alerted the National Guard, and the city's 400-man police force was enforcing an uneasy truce. N.A.A.C.P. agents, in town to call off further sit-ins and to try to keep Negro gangs under control, blamed the situation on Jacksonville's stubborn segregation. Despite his police chief's report that "all the fellows we arrested were local boys," Mayor Burns insisted that the trouble had been started by whites from out of town. Whoever was right, the promise...
...charge and put several colonels in jail. Corruption is in the air; but it also exists because the hard-working Shah tries to run the government all by himself. His few trusted aides are mostly officers of Iran's 200,000-man army, which he relies on to keep him in power and hence pampers. As a result, generals abound, and every other automobile in Teheran seems to bear the yellow and white plates that denote an army car. Among civilian officials. the Shah depends on retainers like Eghbal. who once told the Majlis: "I am not interested...
...neutralists, none has made the art pay better than Cambodia's unpredictable chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 37. Since 1955 Sihanouk has extracted $290 million in aid from the U.S., $22 million from France, $23 million from Red China, and perhaps $12 million from Russia. To keep himself from being compromised, Sihanouk, after each Western gift, generally scampers off to Peking or Moscow for an offsetting Red handout. Last week, in a dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Sihanouk unveiled a second rule of aidmanship: always bite the hand that feeds...
...North American dog act, and a show called Don't Stop, You're Killing Me, a revue thinly disguised as melodrama, which incorporated a squad of "police" who, more or less as if sent by Luigi Pirandello, entered the theater telling everyone in the audience to keep his seat until the heavy was apprehended. At the 3,000-seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning $3,000 a week. "When it's Blackpool on the line...