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...events of last week had produced the most dramatic break yet in the long cold war. It was the climax to a strange new pattern in diplomatic tactics, which had casually begun in the U.N. delegates' lounge at Lake Success and had come to a head a fortnight ago with the first hint of U.S.-Russian agreement on Berlin...
...Fortnight ago he formally notified Queen Juliana that he would go on a hunger strike against the government's "wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
...flat rebuttal of Johnson's own statement a fortnight ago, Sullivan accused Johnson of ramming through the carrier decision without a word to the Navy Department. Yet, said Sullivan, the carrier had twice been approved by the President, and specifically authorized by Congress. Furthermore it had been so important to the Navy that other construction funds had twice been reduced to make the carrier possible. As Sullivan saw it, the whole deal was a barefaced double-cross...
...railroad decided to hold off for a while. But a fortnight ago it announced a final decision: after May 1 the Zephyr would no longer stop at Electra...
...Harvard and Princeton will ever reach a decision on the rugby field it will have to be today down at Princeton. Already the teams have played to two ties, one a 3-3 tie in Bermuda back in April, the other a scoreless deadlock on Soldiers Field one fortnight...