Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter sent by Charles Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.N., to President Emeritus Conant in 1952. Malik wrote, "At the bottom of the great division in the world today certainly lies the spiritual estrangement between Rome and Byzantium which occurred a thousand years ago. The healing of this breach is an indispensable condition for real peace and understanding. I hope... Harvard will stand out in the Western Hemisphere as the place most clearly indicated for that purpose. I think such an act of charity on the part of Western Protestantism is absolutely necessary for any eventual spiritual conciliation with Russia...
...representatives of other countries would learn about it promptly. For though it is possible secretly to circumvent partial disarmament, to overstep quotas, etc., it is impossible to arm secretly per se. When such action was even suspected would be the moment for a U.N. peace commission to investigate. "A breach of the peace" would begin with the first preparation for war, before the offender could resist U.N. [forces...
...81st performance of the Broadway hit play Mrs. Patterson (TIME, Dec. 13), the show's star, feline Warbler-Actress Eartha Kitt, departed from the script to murmur: "I can't go through with it." Then she departed from the stage. With no understudy to throw into the breach, the theater gave refunds to some 900 playgoers. Why hadn't the show gone on? Eartha, according to her agent, was ailing seriously with a kidney infection. Whatever ailed her, she was back in the show next evening, looked wan in her dressing room after beginning an indefinite routine...
...petitioners, supported by the Association for the Arnold arboretum, had brought suit against the state Attorney-General, contesting his decision not to prosecute the University for alleged breach of public trust. Chief Justice Stanley E. Qua of the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Court has no legal right to review the decisions of the State's Attorney-General...
...Association's legal recourses seem to be exhausted. Under Massachusetts law there are only two alternatives for an inquiry into the actions of the University as trustee of the Arnold Arboretum. Either the Attorney-General can bring suit against Harvard for breach of public trust in removing Arboretum materials, or the University can apply to the courts for instructions concerning the legality of its actions...