Word: according
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technique, Lady Dowding later explained to newsmen, involves stealing up on the beasts after dark and cooing: "I am glad to have you as unseen pets, but you are causing me some difficulty." Then, "after I have said this, they understand the situation and leave of their own accord." The one hazard, conceded Lady Dowding, "is that anyone listening would think I was crazy...
...making, and the final, grueling bargaining session took till dawn. But in the end, the Market solved the agricultural disagreements that had threatened its progress. The original treaty had allowed member nations to postpone the second, four-year phase of the Common Market timetable until a farm policy accord could be hammered out. With last week's agreement the Six waived that right, were ready to move into Phase 2, in which national vetoes will no longer be possible...
...push for change came from France. With the support of Italy and The Netherlands, the French began to pressure for an agricultural accord before the end of the Common Market's first four-year stage, during which each member had an absolute veto. Deadline for the end of the first phase was Dec. 31. 1961. The French warned that unless the substance of a new farm program was worked out by that date, they would veto passage of the Common Market into its second four-year stage, in which majority rule would prevail on all but specific major decisions...
...Thursday David J. Oyama '64, one of the original candidates, protested the Committee's action as not in accord with the new Council's Constitution. The Committee withdrew Schaffer from nomination but, saying that House members had not had sufficient time to consider the election, postponed it a week and reopened nominations...
...decided to go to Vienna to meet Nikita Khrushchev. He hoped, he said, to size up Khrushchev and to warn him against miscalculating U.S. determination in the cold war. He knew beforehand that Khrushchev was tough-but only at Vienna did he discover how tough. "The difficulty of reaching accord was dramatized in those two days," he says today. There was no shouting or shoe banging, but the meeting was grim. At one point Kennedy noted a medal on Khrushchev's chest and asked what it was. When Khrushchev explained that it was for the Lenin Peace Prize, Kennedy...