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...last, the release attempts to indicate substantial agreement between Bender's report and that of the Special Faculty Committee on Admission Policy, and thus accord among the Faculty as a whole. In his report, Bender said that the Faculty Committee's recommendations "for the most part either state the obvious or are so neatly balanced as to be useless as guides for action...
...State Department intelligence experts kept a weather eye on the rain in Laos, where the monsoon-and perhaps an uneasy truce-will end later this month. From the stalled peace talks in Geneva, roving Ambassador Averell Harriman flew to Southeast Asia in an all-but-hopeless effort to establish accord with Sovietsupported Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos' prospective Premier...
...locals of the United Auto Workers staged the toilet strike against General Motors just as an agreement seemed imminent (see BUSINESS), both U.A.W. President Walter Reuther and G.M. Negotiator Lou Seaton called Goldberg for advice. Patiently, Goldberg heard each man out, discovered areas of agreement, and eased them toward accord. Both sides were confident of an end to the walkouts this week...
Washington is anxious to see how seriously the Berlin crisis affects the conference. Nehru's temporary dismissal of the whole Western case on Berlin was both irritating and sobering. Tito not long ago declared himself in accord with Russia "on the majority of important questions.'' (Yugoslavia was the first nation outside the East bloc to extend formal diplomatic recognition to Communist East Germany...
Ricordi's angry response is that certain changes are inevitable in the hands of strong conductors like Toscanini, who simply made the music "accord with the times.'' The company's irritation at Vaughan and his supporters is heightened by the fact that the Verdi copyright is due to run out at year's end, and Ricordi is anxious to extend its profitable monopoly for another 20 years. As for Vaughan, he is looking ahead to an "artistic revolution." When the copyright expires, he hopes, the whole operatic orchestra will be tuned back to its proper...