Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Russian air control officer was still showing up every day to help approve Western flights to Berlin. One three-truck U.S. convoy was stopped for eight hours at the West Berlin gateway-but by Soviet, not East German guards; and hundreds of other trucks passed through without difficulty. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told graduates of Moscow's Military Academies that the Soviet Union had not meant to imply the use of force at Berlin, but that his government would soon offer the U.S., Britain and France "definite, concrete proposals regarding the status of Berlin...
...remarks I made in my memoirs were not intended to reflect in any way on the courage of the Italian soldier. During the late war his morale was low because his heart was not in the Fascist cause; also, he was not too well equipped." At week's end, Italians glowed in the reassurance from their newspapers that they had fought bravely, on both sides...
...week's end Jordan was still lustily celebrating the King's deliverance, as well as his 23rd birthday. Whatever the unpopularity of his regime, the festivities proved that he was personally popular, and admired more than ever now for having shown the quality of luck. Had he been killed over Syria, however, Jordan might now be plunged into revolution, and the Middle East into war. This knowledge kept everyone from laughing too hard at the great snafu...
...girl at a debutante party used her stock conversational opener with a new dancing partner: "So you go to Harvard. What Club are you in?" In Cambridge, an undergraduate wishing to contact the Harvard Flying Club was surpised and a bit mystified when the voice at the other end of the telephone told him politely that the Fly Club had nothing to with airplanes...
...freedom which has been granted him." This freedom consists of no formal course requirements for the entire Senior year, although the Scholars are encouraged to audit whatever courses they like. Aside from the project, the only requirement is an oral examination in the Scholar's field at the end of the year...