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...employees affected--janitors, groundsmen, maids, maintenance men, and other unskilled groups--have been represented since 1938 by a company Union, the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association. The officers of that group assert that they know of no serious dissatisfaction among their members, and claim that "the AFL hasn't a prayer of a chance here...
...Sooner or Later." In the midst of all the dignified swallowing of pride that was going on, Israel proclaimed that it was about to send an Israeli ship through the canal to assert its right, and Egypt just as huffily said that the ship would be stopped on the basis of Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal...
...point in the hearings did the security officers assert that Dr. Oppenheimer's final version either minimized the nature of the proposal or was in any sense untrue...
...Britons recognize that part of the present difficulty of dealing with Nasser stems from problems created by their bungled attack. At this point, most were happy to leave the problem on Ike's doorstep, and even perhaps ready to grant that Britain currently is in no position to assert its own will in the Middle East. Suffering from the effects at home of the blocked canal and fearing the loss of most of its influence in the area-a defeat underlined last week by the agreement ending the 35-year-old relationship with Jordan and abandonment of its bases...
...reputation of being a brilliant conversationalist with a ready and sardonic wit, sometimes almost playful. He is an astute critic of his adopted country and is as firm in his standards of political and public behavior as he is in his standards of art. Yet his friends assert that one of the most remarkable things about this rather enigmatic man is his ability to laugh at himself and at the world. With a combination of strictly disciplined yet imaginative logic and endearing generosity, interest and vitality, there are few of his students or colleagues who do not find...