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...dorms would continue to close at 10 p.m. under the motion, the Council felt that in effect the extended deadline would keep the whole dorm open later. It was said that the proposal was unfair to the girls not going out to subject them to the noise of late caller and departures...
...Iranian protocol officer who deals with the Russians in Teheran felt sure he recognized the voice at the other end of the phone line. The caller said that he was the Soviet embassy's political officer. "You should know," he went on, "that our ambassador attempted suicide." Then the line went dead. The protocol officer, still convinced it was the voice of the Soviet political officer with whom he had talked dozens of times, phoned back. But the political officer denied making the call, denied the suicide story as well, hung up. In spite of the denials, the report...
...receipt, return or canceled check. If no evidence was available, the agents took down names & addresses to check against the service's records. If delinquency was admitted, the agents were happy to accept on-the-spot payments. Door-slammers were likely to be visited by another kind of caller, a man with a summons...
Turkey in the Straw. After that, things got hotter, and Greek Ambassador Athanase Politis called a square dance. Said an admiring guest: "He never saw a turkey or knew about straw, but he is one hell of a caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...
Meaning Business. When General Mark Clark, Lieut. General Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs came to sweet-talk him on his terrace, proud, headstrong Syngman Rhee held firm. "You came here to save us," he told one caller. "Are we saved if, after three years of war, you sign away the principles you have said you were fighting for?" The Americans tried to explain that the U.N. was fighting in Korea to stop aggression, that aggression had been stopped, that unification would have to wait for the peace conference. Unification, they said, is only a political objective...