Word: charterers
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...said in words cautious but clear, "at what appears to be a threat of unilateral intervention in the internal affairs of the Republic of Congo ... I would conceive it to be the duty of the United States, and indeed all members of the United Nations, to defend the charter of the United Nations by opposing any [such] attempt by any government." No one doubted that the President was declaring that the U.S. was ready to use armed force, if necessary, to back up his words...
...unilateral" aid. But the delivery was clouded with mystery. Katangese officials said that they had meant to cancel the order and that delivery of the planes at this time was "a terrible mistake." The Stratocruiser was unmarked except for its serial number, which traced back to a New York charter outfit called Seven Seas Airlines, Inc. The company denied that it owned the Boeing, said it was engaged only in a food airlift to the Congo...
Jackie Kennedy: Welcome to the Politicians' Wives Union! We are nonpartisan, have no dues, duties, charter or elected officers, but we are legion, and stalwartly defend every member who likes to read a book-for sheer pleasure...
After 1942, when voluble Author-Journalist Norman Cousins became its editor, the Saturday Review of Literature began trying by one device after another to escape its original charter as a magazine of literary criticism. But for all its experimentation, the Saturday Review (circ. 248,179) has remained a magazine of comparatively limited audience. Last week it accepted a boost from a giant...
...forming a society to foster the return of form and content to poetry ("Put the Sense back in Sensitivity" will be our slogan), and I shall nominate Arthur Freeman to charter membership. "Cambridge Seasonal" is an urbane, amusing, richly textured, and formal satire on Cambridge. The characters are old Cambridge ladies "in black woolens," young Cambridge lovers "who link, unlink, attach, detach," professors "with owlish eyes, benign white features, glossy skin, and crystal-clear clock-work within," a townie "with raw brown eyes, red hands, warts, weatherbeaten levis, and a real beery leer," and even a Radcliffe girl ("Something from...