Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steel was in accord with Stinson's opposition to a complete merger of all theatre groups, but John W. Hallowell, Jr. '58, president of the Eliot House Drama Society, emphatically urged that "all drama should be administered by one organization, a revamped HDC." He advocated use of the theatre by all desiring to participate, including House members. "It is impractical to have eight or ten small groups," Hallowell noted...
...year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser triumphantly ran off a plebiscite ratifying his power over two ancient countries, then stepped to his Cairo balcony and delivered his inaugural address to half a million screaming schoolchildren. "O youth," he shouted, "the United Arab Republic has come into being." The merger of Egypt and Syria, he said, now becomes "the basis of Arab union." "Mabrouk Gamal-Congratulations, Gamal," shrieked the schoolkids. Rockets burst overhead, parachuting small Egyptian and Syrian flags down on their heads. Egypt's top singer, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, led them in chanting the newly composed anthem...
...Sudan"; the Sudanese ignored him. During the Sudan's first parliamentary elections in 1953, the Egyptian army officers who overthrew Farouk dispatched Major Salah Salem to dance with the natives in his undershorts and ladle out a reported $5,000,000 trying to swing the Sudanese toward merger with Egypt; the Sudanese politicians took the money, rejected the merger and, in 1955, declared themselves independent. Last week, flushed with his success to the east, ambitious Gamal Abdel Nasser brazenly attempted to expand to the south. He discovered that the Sudanese were not as annexation-prone as the Syrians...
...parallel (see map). In the past 56 years Egypt had never claimed them. Nasser followed up his first note with another announcing that he was sending election officials into the areas so that the inhabitants of the two areas could vote in the plebiscite ratifying the Egyptian-Syrian merger. It was a bald attempt at annexation...
...survey of Kress to see how the chain can be made aggressive again. R. H. Kress opposed the management survey, charged that the revolt was a maneuver by competing F. W. Woolworth to take over Kress, since Foundation Trustee Helm is also a Woolworth director and had suggested a merger. This charge so piqued Helm that he resigned from the foundation...