Word: finales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Black, accompanied by his top aides, flew to New Delhi with fresh proposals aimed at a final settlement. If both sides could agree, the World Bank would help raise the estimated $600 million needed to put the plan into operation. One stumbling block is that India would have to put up a substantial part of the funds to build link canals and reservoirs in Pakistan to replace water that India diverted for itself. Still, as Black knew, New Delhi and Karachi are tired of a decade of bitterness, and some Indians and Pakistanis, watching Red China's actions...
...test President Mohammed Ayub Khan and to exploit the feeling in both lands that this might be the last chance for a peace. Last week, boarding his plane for the U.S., Black said cheerfully: "We have reached agreement on certain principles, which we hope will lead to a final settlement." Reserved though the statement was, it is the best news on the Indus waters that anyone has reported since the bloody days of partition...
Dick Pescosolido, with firsts in the 120 low hurdles and 100 and 220 yard dashes, and a second in the javelin, scored a total of 22 points to help Kirkland gain the final victory...
...this same vein, Morison has just finished a biography of John Paul Jones. Entitled John Paul Jones: a Sailor's Biography, the publisher's proofs sit on the professor's desk awaiting final touches. The volume will be a Book of the Month Club selection, although the professor does not yet know when it will be published. Currently Morison is actively engaged in writing a single-volume history of the United States entitled The Oxford History of the American People...
...other game in which the Crimson demonstrated consistent lacrosse was the season's final against Yale--and even then the varsity defeated itself with some horrendous lacrosse in the first period. But throughout the rest of the game the defense checked harder than it had all season, and the whole team played well. Although the varsity lost 9 to 4, it outscored the Elis 4 to 3 in the last three periods...