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...always been the Greek contention that the Turks do not really care about Cyprus, and have only been stirred up by perfidious Albion. Though the Turks deny this, the fact is they have been quiet all along, even though there are 100,000 Turkish Cypriots as well as 400,000 Greek Cypriots involved. Then why their silence? The Turks answer that they had no desire to complicate the issue so long as the British held to their resolution not to leave Cyprus...
...Harvard Club and the old grads in it have changed considerably. Of course football coaches still speak and show films at many clubs each year. In 1954-55, however, head coach Lloyd Jordan addressed exactly four full-Club meetings. Meanwhile President Pusey made eleven such appearances, Professor Robert G. Albion seven, Professor Arthur E. Sutherland and Professor Perry Miller three each, and Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy, took the year's honors with a grand total of fifteen speeches in Clubs as well-scattered as California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Iowa, South Carolina, and Syracuse...
Pity the poor history major. His troubles began with departures to other coleges, were compounded by vacations, were aggravated by sabatticals, and were culiminated by Guggenheim Fellowships. The exodus leaves the department without Gilmore, Hammond, McKay, Schlesinger, Wolff, Bailyn, Conway, and McGann; Malia in the springtime; Albion and Graubard in the fall. So pity the history major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Greece, early Rome, most of the Middle Ages, half of Renaissance and Reformation, Russia from...
India's bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru twirled by helicopter to Bombay on a sea hop from the British aircraft carrier Albion, maneuvering with Indian naval units. Before taking off from the Albion, Visitor Nehru looked a trifle apprehensive as a long-legged British admiral fussed with Nehru's "Mae West" lifejacket...
...need for Arts to look for the Machiavellian machinations of perfidious Albion in the erroneous diagnosis, because pathological anatomy was, at the time of Napoleon's death, only in the initial phase...