Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mischievous foreign-policy missionary, Krishna Menon, and the rest of the Indian delegation were openly contemptuous of the inept way their inexperienced Indonesian hosts had prepared for the meeting. "We sent some people down here in advance to try and help these beggars," said one Indian, "but they haven't got a clue, not a clue!" Invitations. The five Prime Ministers briskly agreed on date and place (Indonesia in April). As an indication of the kind of discussions that might be held, they unanimously condemned, at Nehru's suggestion, atomic and hydrogen experiments and asked that they...
...lanky John Landy, 24, was given the Order of the British Empire. Britain's great miler, Dr. Roger Bannister, had been ignored, but more because the list was so dull, London's press exploded in columns of indignation. The editorial consensus: the list had deteriorated into "a haven for aging admirals and bureaucrats...
...merger of the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroads proposed recently by New Haven president Patrick B. McGinnis would "not necessarily be harmful to the economic interests of New England," Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, said Monday night...
McGinnis, a New York financier who recently wrested control of the New Haven from Frederic C. Dumaine, Jr., stated last month that three of his friends had purchased controlling stock in the Boston and Maine. The New Haven president proposed at that time a merger of the two roads within the next three years...
Cherington, interviewed on Station WGBH-FM by Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, called a linking of the two lines a "reasonable regional consolidation." "It doesn't seem to me," he said, "that the B & M and the New Haven are primarily competing properties. I think that they supplement each other's services, and control of both roads wouldn't necessarily be dangerous...