Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating the first anniversary of the merger of their country with Egypt in the United Arab Republic...
...parietal hours can wait. Other matters seem more urgent. Once the merger is effective Comstock girls should be allowed entrance to all meals in the House (with some exceptions, perhaps, over breakfast). This is but a natural extension of the moves already taken, and seems highly desirable, especially for girls with labs and sections in the early afternoon. Of course corresponding privileges should be granted the Winthrop...
...foreign alliances," the gaunt, black-browed Iraqi general told a press conference, after his victory over army rivals who favored a merger with the United Arab Republic. "The Baghdad Pact is less than a shadow. The word 'ally' applies only to Arab sister countries in our eyes...
Harlow Russell III '60, of Eliot House and Winchester, was elected president of the Pierian Sodality. Under the provisions of a recent merger, Sigrid A. Lemlein '60, of Moors Hall and Brookline, the first woman to be elected to the Sodality since 1808, became house president. Robert C. Kogan '62, of pennypacker Hall and New Rochelle, N.Y., was chosen secretary. and Paul H. Riesman '60, of Adams House and Cambridge, was elected treasurer...
...reason the merger ardor may be cooling slightly is simply that business is getting better. Late in December rail car-loadings hit 431,938 cars, topped the year-ago level for the first time in 16 months, although the corresponding week a year ago was particularly depressed by bad weather. Fortnight ago, loadings climbed to 467,699 cars, lagged only 1% below the same week in 1958. Railmen think the year-to-year gap has now been closed, expect carloadings to keep climbing above those of 1958 as the tempo of U.S. business picks...