Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cynical power play. The speaker: tough, chunky James Riddle Hoffa, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. His announcement: as part payment for a pact binding the teamsters and longshoremen to joint organizational drives and cooperative action during strikes, three regional teamster groups-the Central, Eastern and Southern Conferences-were prepared to lend the I.L.A. more than...
Cypriot Cnurcn: The Church of Cyprus, to which 80% of the island's population belongs, is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church and has been autocephalic (self-ruled) since 431. Founded by St. Barnabas and St. Paul, it is in ecclesiastical communion with the other sees of Eastern Orthodox Churches, in dogma and liturgical tradition is close to the Roman Catholic Church because it preserves the faith as interpreted by the seven Ecumenical Councils of the first eight centuries (when the church was one and undivided). The Greek Orthodox Church is also in communion with the established Church...
...Conservative unity if he had been willing to echo the demands of 30 or 35 back bench Tory rebels of the "Suez group," who smolder at the British retreat from the Suez, and accuse Eden of weakly appeasing the Arabs. Sitting behind Eden, they too wanted a new Middle Eastern approach: toughness and force. But Gaitskell refused to "go their way," and closed with a rousing peroration-"There is a desperate need at the moment for a lead which will both rally democratic forces and restore unity ... I hope the government will give that lead or else make...
...after a Negro was lynched in Maryland's Eastern Shore town of Salisbury, the late Baltimore Sage H. L. Mencken, exploding in Baltimore's Evening Sun, hurled a carboy of acid across Chesapeake Bay at the lynchers and their ilk. Sample corrosives: "The Eastern Shore Kultur ... an Alsatia of morons . . . ignorant and ignoble minds." Maryland's state senate recently held a roll call on a resolution expressing "the sorrow of the General Assembly of Maryland over the passing of Henry Louis Mencken." It passed, not unanimously as such resolutions usually do, but by a vote...
...varsity swimming team took a slight lead over Yale and North Carolina State in the race for unofficial team honors in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships at Cornell yesterday. Harvard took two firsts, two seconds, and a fourth; Yale took one first, two seconds, and two thirds; State took two firsts...