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Saved: Lives & Minds. As a result of this fundamental difference in philosophy of government, there has been a compromise, e.g., the legislature gave the governor his two new departments, but refused to centralize authority in the cabinet. Now, with his term at the halfway mark, George Craig appears to be on the way toward a record of accomplishment as governor...
Figueres similarly initiated Nixon's visit to San José by telling reporters that he would "never sit down with that Somoza," but he also wound up by assuring Nixon privately that he would "go more than halfway" to head off any more tension. The publicity Nixon turned on them may well keep them peaceful-for a while...
Arbitrary as such a plan might appear, it remains the best method for attaining a system of Houses individually balanced but still distinctive. Housemasters should quickly stop attempts to reach President Lowell's ideal with halfway measures and drop the preferential system of Houses assignment...
...abuse the privilege of making reservations. If their tickets are not used and not canceled within a reasonable time before departure, then not all of the purchase price is returned to them . . . The airlines have not had the courage to put in this sensible system . . . instead they instituted the halfway measure of the reconfirmation system . . . The reconfirmation policy is a proven failure and should be abolished, yet the members of the Air Transport Association, representing the airlines, have consistently voted to retain it, and a minority group, which includes American Airlines, has not yet been able to have it abolished...
After hours, Dulles and Anthony Eden (whose trip to the Far East is the first ever made by a British Foreign Secretary while still in office) will take up Topic A, having come halfway around the world to resume the debate on ground close to Formosa (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...