Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Provost Buck set up CEP, he provided that it be the agency for clearing all academic proposals before they could be put on the Faculty's agenda. In addition, he was the committee's chairman...
Promptly at noon White got the meeting under way. The crowd was noisy and restless. Stockholders stood by their seats, clamoring for recognition, or wandered aimlessly around the room. White stuck to his agenda, but soon his chairman's gavel was drowned out by the hubbub. Finally, he got through the nomination of the two opposing slates for the 15-man board of directors. He announced that the voting would include two resolutions sponsored by Mrs. Wilma Soss, the vocal president of the Federation of Women Shareholders and the holder of ten shares (plus about 1,000 proxies). Then...
...Backing Out. At the Four-Power Conference in Berlin last January, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles voiced a warning to Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault: if IndoChina were included on the agenda of the Geneva Conference, the Communists would inevitably try to improve their bargaining position by an all-out military attack. Eden and Bidault agreed that the Communists might do just that. But they argued that public opinion at home forced them to take the risk; the French thought that they could beat off the Red attack...
Worthy Pupil. Korea was first on the agenda, but not first in the hearts of the delegates. The South Korean delegate proposed Syngman Rhee's plan for supervised elections, to be held in North Korea only, for the loo-odd seats kept vacant in the Republic of Korea assembly. North Korea just as predictably demanded, among other things, withdrawal of all foreign troops. As Dulles rose to endorse South Korea's plan, Chou scribbled notes, asked to speak as soon as Dulles sat down...
Item: Indo-China. Around a great satinwood table in Ceylon's government offices, the five Prime Ministers convened. Between them they represented some 540 million human beings-more than one-fourth of mankind-and they moved soberly to their agenda. Item No. i: Nehru's peace plan for Indo-China. At once came objection. In view of South Asia's own unsettled Kashmir dispute, said Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, would it not be "perhaps a little presumptuous for us to preach peace to others?" Nehru fired right back: if Pakistan wants to discuss Kashmir, India...