Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government charter-so long as Egypt paid due compensation. But he also held that Nasser, in seizing the canal itself, had violated solemn treaties.* In the end, the Big Three duly called a conference of 24 nations "deeply concerned with use of the canal"* to meet in London Aug. 16. At Dulles' insistence, those invited included not only Egypt but Russia (the British and French swallowed hard at first, having spent half a century trying to keep Russia out of the area). The conference would be held even if Premier-President Nasser's Egypt should refuse to attend...
Five Principles, Two Protests. The Burmese could now tell, if they could not before, whom ex-Premier U Nu meant in his attack three weeks ago on unnamed "veritable sons of bitches for distant aunts" (TIME, Aug. 6). Now that the story was out in the open, the government admitted that it had quietly lodged two protests with Peking since last November; the first was brushed off, the second had gone unanswered even though, under the much-vaunted Panch Shila or Five Principles of India's Nehru, Burma and Red China had pledged to respect each other...
...week starting Thursday, Aug. 9. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...
...TRANSATLANTIC AIR service is planned by Greek Shipowner Aristotle Socrates Onassis, who will pay an estimated $2,500,000 for a 20-year concession to run Greece's ailing airline, T.A.E. (TIME, Aug. 6). Onassis' deal with the Greek government stipulates that T.A.E. start serving South Africa and the Far East by 1958, fly to New York by 1959. Onassis will spend some $10 million for expansion, is trying to buy three DC-7B and two Convair 440 airliners...
...That is not a friend," a mutual acquaintance consoled Miller. "That is a living corpse." The living corpse ceased living in a charity hospital on Aug. 31, 1954. "He was alone like a rat," reports Miller with relief-but also with a tinge of regret...