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...think of shedding blood?" Though Ecevit was still maintaining that no decision to invade had yet been made, he replied with a broad hint about Turkey's intentions: "I am convinced that my decision will prevent more bloodshed." He cited the 1967 Cyprus crisis, in which U.S. Mediator Cyrus Vance persuaded the sides to pull back and avoid fighting. "If your colleague had not convinced us to change our minds about military interference, Cyprus today would be an island of peace...
WITH A STRONG dedication to the movies, and an equally strong entrepreneurial sense, Cyrus I. Harvey Jr. '47 and Bryant N. Halliday '49 opened the Brattle as a moviehouse on St. Valentine's Day, 1953. The Brattle had just closed as a legitimate stage: Halliday had been general manager of the Brattle Theater Company's final season, and Harvey had been connected with it a few years earlier when it was part of the Harvard Theater Workshop...
...only a 17-year-old errand boy to John D. Rockefeller when he became convinced of Russia's industrial potential. So as Canadian-born, Cleveland-based Cyrus Eaton made and remade several industrial fortunes in steel, railroads and rubber over the years, he also worked for détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: traveling behind the Iron Curtain, playing host to Russian leaders when they visited the U.S., proposing trade deals and in 1957 assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster...
...Harvard-Cornell archaeological expedition in western Turkey uncovered a 2500 year old citadel this summer. The fortress, found at Sardis, the capital of the Lydian kingdom, was stormed by King Cyrus when he dethroned King Croesus...
...Cyrus Eaton is one of the most contradictory figures in U.S. business: an archetypal capitalist worth more than $150 million, he regularly visits Communist capitals from Havana to Hanoi in an attempt to promote East-West détente. He has made the Cleveland-based Chesapeake& Ohio one of the few profitable railroads in the country; last year it doubled its earnings, to $60 million. Eaton, at 89, talks and acts as though he plans to stay active in business forever-and lately that ambition has become all too painfully believable for his impatient corporate colonels. Last week, while Eaton...