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...firmest support possible would be a proposal from the United States to put all similar international waterways under a special type of international control. Outright ownership and operation would remain with the nation involved--Egypt in the case of Suez, the United States in Panama, Germany in the Kiel Canal--but an independent body, similar to this country's Interstate Commerce Commission, would be chartered under the United Nations to fix maximum rates and minimum standards of operation. This body would act also as a board of arbitration for any complaints--with the General Assembly as the final appeal group...
...boldness of his policies electrified the country. It was Menderes who took the decision to send Turkish troops to the Korean war. He joined the Balkan Pact and helped fashion the Baghdad Pact. He was among the firmest and most useful of U.S. allies in the Mediterranean...
...firmest hitching posts in science is absolute zero, the temperature ( -273° C. or 0° Kelvin) where vibratory motions of the atoms cease. Generations of physics students have been told that nothing can get colder than 0° K. It gave them a comfortable feeling that here at least was a final point beyond which they need not worry. Recently in Manhattan, Professor Norman F. Ramsey of Harvard University told a meeting of the American Ordnance Association about a new set of laws that must be worked out to deal with a temperature range that reaches below absolute zero...
Prevailing Winds. Adenauer's was the firmest but not the only voice to be raised against Russia's new diplomatic offensive...
...offshore island-Hong Kong. With a shrewd instinct for exploiting U.S.-British differences and for gobbling up one goody at a time, the Chinese Communists have not mentioned it either, though the Chinese claim to Hong Kong is geographically and historically better than their claim to Formosa. Ironically, the firmest official British pronouncement on Hong Kong was made in 1949 by Clement Attlee's Labor Government. "Britain," said the spokesman defiantly, "intended to stand fast, and in view of the success of the Communists in China, would take all practical measures for the colony's defense...