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...Supported, to the chagrin of the Greeks, British efforts to formulate a self-government plan for Cyprus and break long-deadlocked negotiations between the U.K., Greece, and Turkey over the future of the strategic British colony. The U.S., said the State Department, "still hopes" that its three allies and the people of Cyprus would "strive to agree upon a way of moving together toward a solution which is so important to themselves and to the entire free world...
Bender has visited every one of Ohio's 23 congressional districts at least six times, taken off from his campaign to sleep in his Chagrin Falls home only 25 nights. And in his five terms as governor, Frank J. Lausche has never once let up in his campaign to promote the political career of Frank J. Lausche...
Alexander & Napoleon. Many Moslems have an unspeakable, uncontrollable hatred for Israel, but Nasser's emotion is a composite of worry, envy, chagrin and wounded pride that the little nation should have licked all the Arab states and come out of it with an army twice the size of Egypt's. "They'll take equipment anywhere they can get it," he claimed. "We are beginning to learn from them." It was his way of calling attention to the report that Russia has been offering to supply Egypt with arms, no strings attached, and perhaps even to finance...
...burned. So did two sister carriers, the Kaga and Soryu (Hiryu, the fourth, survived to be wrecked by an evening raid). In two minutes the whole course of the Pacific war changed. That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home. (The U.S. Navy lost the Yorktown, one of the three carriers that it was able to muster for the great battle...
During the course of these amenities, a romance flowered between young Sultan and dark-eyed Alia El Solh, eldest of El Solh's daughters. But disillusionment set in. Alia, a Western-educated 22-year-old, learned to her chagrin that Sultan already had at least one other wife, two sons and four daughters. Sultan hired a private eye and discovered that his bride-to-be was a feminist agitator with a firm determination not to hide herself behind a veil and live in a harem. One month after old Ibn Saud went to his grave, the marriage plans were...