Word: dillon
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Captain Wharton will seek the first Crimson victory in history in the Eddie Farrell 500, an annual event in the meet, named in honor of the former Harvard track coach. Farrell was the brother of Jim Farrell, who presently in charge of the equipment room at Dillon Field House. Last year, Skerritt nipped Cairns to win the last few steps...
...Refuted a surge of anti-American rumors in Paris to the effect that the U.S. cut off oil supplies to France at the height of the Suez crisis to signify disapproval of the Suez invasion. Declared U.S. Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon: "The truth is exactly the opposite," i.e., with normal French deliveries at 41,000 tons weekly, "in the second week of November U.S. shipments reached 212,000 tons." and by the first week in December had increased over twenty fold to 920,000 tons...
...tone of U.S. participation with an appeal for moral principles in international affairs, cited the British-French cease-fire in Egypt as a compliance with morality. But his newspaper bannered a point-blank refutation of Dulles' argument by an influential American diplomat: his breakfast host, Ambassador Clarence Douglas Dillon. Returning briefly to the U.S. last fortnight, Dillon had paused in Washington to record a radio interview for CBS's Capitol Cloakroom. One inevitable question: Why had the British and French stopped their Suez advance? Dillon's exact answer: "Well, I think what is generally felt...
After an uncomfortable chat with his Paris house guest, Dillon issued his own statement, emphasized he "had no intention of minimizing the effect of worldwide moral pressure which was exerted through the United Nations." Hedged the ambassador: he would have listed all the causes behind the British-French action, but time ran out on him. Explaining his good intentions, Dillon explained something else as well: why, as a result of such impulses toward irresponsibility, U.S. foreign policy is sometimes criticized as confused...
...Douglas Dillon '31, U.S. Ambassador to France, has been appointed to the executive committee of the Program for Harvard College, President Pusey announced yesterday...