Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand that the CRIMSON apologize to 1) Professor Allport and Mr. Riecken for the false statements it made about them; 2) to the Social Relations Department for making the absurd suggestion that there might be "retaliation" against students furnishing unfavorable information about the Department; 3) to me for its unscrupulous tactics in using the leads I gave in good faith for sensationalist purposes in violation of the promise that it made to me. The CRIMSON has a fine tradition behind it; I do not wish to see it degenerate into a yellow sheet to which no one can make confidential...
Problem: how to handle Germany's demand for NATO membership. The Germans want a seat on NATO's council; other NATO powers (particularly the French) don't want her in. Solution: Germany will get a seat and a veto on the European Army council, but not in NATO. She will also get the standard NATO guarantee-that an attack on one is an attack...
...East's oil age, the tribal Arabs had a morality and political system which suited their severe lives crudely but comparatively well. The poorest Bedouin could get an audience with the great sheik and a handout from his kitchens. The mistreated slaves could flee to the local ruler, demand protection under the law of the Koran...
...seven officers to investigate the riots. At Panmunjom, Red truce negotiator Colonel Tsai Chengwen sneered, "The massacre fully testifies to the brutal inhumanity with which your side treats our personnel." U.N. officers were convinced that the riots testified to something else: a deliberate Communist attempt to discredit the U.N. demand for voluntary repatriation of prisoners...
...small terra cotta Siesta ($450) made it a legitimate standout. But the more typical exhibits, e.g., Maurice Glickman's hard-bitten Struggle ($5,000 in bronze) and Bernard Rosenthal's insectile Accordion Player ($750), were notable mainly for their strangeness. Granting that the nation's demand for sculpture is unfortunately limited, a good deal of the national supply seems to be unhappily misshapen...