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Before children in schoolrooms and their parents in the coffeehouses, the teachers refrain from much direct praise of Nasser, instead tell of the achievements of his regime. They come equipped with stacks of picture postcards showing modern developments to be seen in Egypt, and, when pressed, admit that Nasser is the author of these wonders. They stress the awakening of Arab nationalism, the need for Arab union under Nasser's general direction, and the doom of the imperialist West. Children are told they must fight for complete emancipation of the Arab people from all foreign control and political influence...
...integration at beleaguered Central High School until 1961 (TIME, June 30). In its haste to get a final ruling before Central High reopens in September, the N.A.A.C.P. had carried its case straight to Washington without waiting for a Court of Appeals decision. Supreme Court policy, seldom breached, is to refrain from reviewing lower-court decisions until the Court of Appeals has its say. But recognizing the "vital importance of the time element," the Supreme Court urged the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (St. Louis) to "act upon the applications for a stay or the appeal in ample time...
...White House huddle, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles decided to 1) refrain from denouncing the Russian backout threat, and 2) send U.S. experts to Geneva anyway, leaving it up to Moscow to break the engagement. Announced Dulles, at a special White House press conference: "As far as we are concerned, we expect the conference to proceed, and our experts will continue on their way." At week's end Russian experts were on their...
...years ago, Adams continued, he called his staff together to discuss "this point," and it was decided that "it was desirable for the staff of the President of the United States to refrain from doing anything which might possibly lead to any question such as you have posed. I have no excuses to offer. I did not come up here to make apology to you or this committee. If there were any errors, as I have already stated, they were errors, perhaps of inexperience . . . I will say this, that if I had the decisions now before me to make...
Khrushchev sneered at Tito and other "ideological windbags" who "exist only because of the alms they receive from imperialist countries in the form of leftover goods ... I cannot refrain from asking the question which deeply concerns all Communists everywhere. Why do the imperialist bosses, while striving to obliterate from the face of the earth the socialist states and squash the Communist movement, at the same time finance one of the socialist countries, granting that country credits and free gifts? . . . Everyone knows that the imperialists never give money to anyone without a purpose, just for the sake of 'beautiful eyes...