Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little in Hand. On other issues, Hammarskjold was only slightly more successful. Typically, Hammarskjold tried, in the words of an aide, to convert the disputed passage to the Gulf of Aqaba "from a political to a legal question." He got Nasser's oral agreement to allow the UNEF to remain at Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely while the U.N. seeks an advisory opinion from the World Court as to whether the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, as Israel and the U.S. contend. Nasser reportedly also agreed not to rush Egyptian troops back into Gaza...
...veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...
...fifteen-year term policy for only $100 a year, about half the cost of straight life insurance. The one trouble is that term insurance builds up no equity for the policyholder. Once he stops paying premiums, he gets no cash, has no insurance, though he can convert to straight life insurance at higher premiums at the end of his term...
Phil Charat, initiated into the foil fraternity in France, has been out of action for several years. After a brief reorientation session this fall, Charat was convinced to abandon his original weapon and convert temporarily to epee, where he will probably start this afternoon...
...Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, picked up Administration support for diverting Venezuelan crude. He also urged new pipeline capacity "in the interests of national security" from Texas to the East Coast, possibly Philadelphia, where natural gas now arrives from Texas in the war-built Little Inch pipeline. An application to convert Little Inch from gas to petroleum products is already before the Federal Power Commission from Houston Contractors George and Herman Brown, and is sure to get quick attention...