Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start repairing oil pipelines sabotaged during the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, through which Iraqi oil can be pumped to Mediterranean ports en route to Europe. Even Nasser's Egypt, still dickering on complexities like who pays what Suez Canal tolls to whom, was ready to allow removal of the last blockships and the waterway could be cleared within the month (see FOREIGN NEWS). This week the President will send former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James P. Richards to the Middle East to explain the doctrine to Middle Eastern leaders...
Belligerent State. Egypt has not yet decided whether to allow Israeli ships to pass through the canal. In the past Egypt has barred Israeli ships from the canal-and from the Gulf of Aqaba-on grounds of Egypt's continued "state of belligerency" against Israel. Back in 1951 the U.N. Security Council ruled out this claim as incompatible with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice...
...question that comes to mind, however, is how can the NCAA allow one of its tournaments to be supported in such a thoroughly professional manner? The answer is simple. The NCAA could not possibly support this tournament in such grandiose fashion. Its officials welcome the guarantee that the event will be held each year in the same place at no charge to them, and they thoroughly appreciate the fact that each team enjoys itself so much at the Broadmoor that it is an added incentive for each team to make the playoffs...
...administrations of five New York City colleges have voted not to allow John Gates, editor of The Daily Worker, to speak on their campuses...
...status quo faction may concede some faults in the system, but ultimately it will argue, as Keppel does, that students who allow low grades to become ends in themselves are immature. He says, "The dangers of the grading system are inherent in the immaturity of the people operating under it. In removing the grading system you do not remove the immaturity that leads students to seek unworthy objects...