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Reluctantly, Washington was bending under the pressure. Last week the parties to the embargo-upheld by all NATO nations (except Iceland) and by Japan-were studying secret U.S. proposals to remove some peaceful items from the China embargo list. In return the U.S. wants to lengthen the list of items embargoed to Russia, tighten the "exceptions procedure" by which Britain and others have sent certain strategic goods into Russia. The U.S. would continue to have no dealings with China but would agree to China trade by its allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lift the Embargo? | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Faculty will decide the fate of proposals to lengthen parietal hours and to permit typewritten examinations when it meets this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Meets Today to Consider Parietals, Exam-Typing Proposals | 1/8/1957 | See Source »

Dean Leighton said yesterday that the Student Council's proposal to lengthen non-football weekend Saturday hours from 11 p.m. until midnight will definitely be on today's docket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty to Weigh Proposed Change In Parietal Rules | 12/18/1956 | See Source »

Stephen C. Clapp '60, and Edwin F. Ford '60, have attempted to lengthen their study hours by sleeping six hours per day in three two-hours naps, usually from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Test Staggered Sleep System | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...bbls. to 1,500,000 bbls. without much trouble-enough for all U.S. needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that the Suez closing would require the addition of at least 144 tankers just to handle the substitute oil shipments from the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. has 34 in reserve. Last week the U.S. took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Middle-East Echoes | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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