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...strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick him with . . . dud Smelly River Ordinaries"*-and, of course, there are the usual Wodehousian references...
Student opinion may influence the final report of the recently-formed CEP Subcommittee on Admissions Policy, Chairman Franklin L. Ford stated yesterday. After making provisional policy decisions, the Subcommittee will then consult representatives of undergraduate and graduate student groups and elicit opinions on its proposed revisions...
...that the postwar alliance between Britain and West Germany has been at best "a shotgun marriage" imposed by the Soviet threat. Adenauer himself has never forgotten that British occupation authorities fired him as mayor of Cologne in 1945 for "insufficient display of energy." And when Harold Macmillan failed to consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position without even asking how Bonn felt...
...captured Lhasa with little difficulty. To keep each other at arm's length, Britain and Czarist Russia agreed to make a buffer state of Tibet and signed the Convention of 1907 recognizing China's "suzerainty" over Tibet. No one bothered to define suzerainty, nor did anyone consult the Tibetans...
...clearance from the President. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, in Washington for the NATO meeting, hit the ceiling when he saw press reports of the C-130 flight, snapped questions at Acting Secretary of State Herter at their next meeting, was calmed down when Herter promised to consult him before it happened again...