Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...next spring and have all the world's leaders come too. After a state visit from Cambodia's amiably neutralist Premier Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Khrushchev put his signature to a declaration that Russia and Cambodia "regard as advisable the convocation in the spring of 1961 of a special session of the U.N. General Assembly with the participation of heads of state or governments." Topic: disarmament...
...people were starving because commercial trawlers had taken all the fish out of the bay. Binamira led a legal fight to force the trawlers to stay three miles offshore so that the village fishermen in their outriggers would have a chance. He also helped Magsaysay to set up a special office to train idealistic young Filipinos for village service...
Last week the U.S. Government itself stepped in. After a six-weeks, on-the-spot investigation by former Assistant Defense Secretary Tracy Voorhees, President Eisenhower set aside $1,000,000 from his $150 million special contingencies' fund for Miami refugee aid, mostly to resettle the unemployed exiles in areas offering jobs. In making available the money, Ike invoked a Mutual Security Act clause authorizing assistance to refugees from Communism, and thus for the first time the U.S. officially labeled Cuba...
...What is it you try and do when you write? Is there anything special you want to express, any social message...
...ungarnished lines, its relatively simple, folkish characters, and its love story, evolving in the midst of battle, this novel is especially reminiscent of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Yet, beneath the Hemingwayesque prose, characters, and situation, there runs a strong nationalistic strain which lends Days and Nights its own, special power and gives it a quality very different from that of the Hemingway novel...