Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...capital-punishment bill through the legislature on the strength of the Chessman case (TIME, March 21). With that slapped down and well behind him, Pat Brown set about selling his record by pen, handshake and after-dinner speech. And he could tick off some notable legislative achievements designed to keep king-size California abreast of the times. Items...
...Keep Out of the Kitchen. Khrushchev seemed especially angry that President Eisenhower had said that he could stay no more than seven days at the summit and had suggested that if it lasted longer, Vice President Nixon should replace him. Evidently still smarting from his unscheduled debate with Nixon at the U.S. fair in Moscow last summer, Khrushchev rumbled: "It is hard for me to shake the impression that the last thing Nixon has in mind is to reach agreement on outstanding questions, liquidate the conditions of tension, and stop the arms race." Sending him to the summit, added Khrushchev...
...Keep Out of the Air. Khrushchev launched on his new line three weeks ago. In a bombastic speech at Baku, he warned that if he signed a separate peace treaty with East Germany, the Western allies "will naturally not be able to reach Berlin by land, water or air," and if they try to use force for the purpose, "this force will be opposed by force from the other side, based on law and right...
...years the water level would gradually inch up to form an inland sea about half as big as Lake Erie. After that, the rapid evaporation in the hot desert air plus some seepage and regulation of the water intake would keep the level permanently some 150 ft. below sea level, providing the United Arab Republic with a perpetual source of power. Estimated cost of the project: $360 million...
...show its loyalty to the new order, the Bank of Korea announced that Syngman Rhee's face would be removed from bank notes. One group of students filed formal charges against Rhee (and 161 former Cabinet ministers and Assemblymen) for "criminal irresponsibility" in rigging the constitution to keep himself in office. Alarmed, Acting President Huh Chung urged a slowdown in the purging, only to be accused by the press of "preserving a corrupt bureaucracy...