Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaesong Deadlock. At the conference table in the big tent at Panmunjom, there was rapid progress last week on item 2 on the agenda-the cease-fire line-which gave rise to some premature optimism. The Reds suddenly proposed a line which almost coincided with the U.N. proposal along most of the front. The Red concession meant that the allies could keep their hard-won mountain terrain (including Heartbreak Ridge) in the center and east. The Communists also agreed to the simile buffer zone along the line suggested...
...Kaesong deadlock would yield to some sort of compromise and that the cease-fire line would be settled at last. But that would not, by any means, signal the end of the war. During all the fuss & fury over the cease-fire line, a time bomb in the agenda had been quietly ticking away: item 3, which concerns supervision of the truce arrangements, and which the U.N. believes must involve inspection by each side behind the opposing lines...
According to Dean Small, topics on the agenda include: a college administration's role in the honor system, responsibilities of night watchmen, open-house deadlines, student cars, and maintenance cost reductions. The discussions have no direct effect on Radcliffe policies, however...
...third topic on the docket and Bender was asked to report on "the parietal regulations on entertainment of woman guests in college dormitories." It is seldom that such a purely undergraduate matter is placed on the agenda of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The faculty has the seldom used power to ask the Administrative Board to reconsider its decisions...
...building--who charged "segregation, waste of money"--and its supporters--who cried out in favor of a community of interest, a welding-to gether of Harvard team spirit. The Korean War, which put restrictions on non-essential building, took the red-hot issue off the University's agenda...