Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants Democrat Richards to take part in a bipartisan meeting on foreign aid at the White House. But beyond that was a factor that at once highlighted the success of the Richards tour and limited its future usefulness. A few days earlier, the U.S. Sixth Fleet, dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean to "hold up the hand" of Jordan's King Hussein against his enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied-a $10 million grant to strengthen young King Hussein...
...object of the withdrawal was to demonstrate that the U.S., after its show of the flag in the Eastern Mediterranean, is confident of King Hussein's stability. But, just to make sure, the Pentagon ordered five Sixth Fleet transports, loaded with U.S. Marines and protected by a screen of destroyers, to remain behind for "fire-brigade duty" if the threat of war should flare again...
...Joint Teamster Council 28. Beck got the word in Washington, put on a pair of dark glasses, bounced into Federal Court to be fingerprinted, bounced out again on $5,000 bail. That done, he was off to Atlantic City to address 50 officers of the Teamsters' Eastern Conference. Said Dave: "If you find anyone who can do a better job than I have done, go ahead and elect him. I merely want to be judged on what's been done for the international union during my administration...
...Crimson, which has dropped Eastern Intercollegiate League games to Columbia and Darmouth, cannot afford to lose any more and must hope for a mistake from E.I.B.L. leaders Yale and Dartmouth. Navy should be unable to keep the varsity from getting back into the win column...
...varsity will be hoping for a Yale upset over Princeton this weekend, for unless this happens, the varsity will have no hope of repeating as Eastern, Ivy and Big Three titlists, and then only in a tie with the Tigers...