Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops into Jordan. Syria's inept little army cannot make good use of Russia's modern arms; the arms were obviously being stockpiled for eventual use by Moscow "volunteers." In this uneasy circumstance, Syria's anti-Communist neighbors in the Baghdad Pact-particularly Turkey and Iraq-met and agreed to fight "subversion" from Syria. The Turks announced "routine" army maneuvers near the Syrian border and flew their Acting Foreign Minister to London to discuss "the Syrian situation" with Britain's Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd. Did they intend to put Syria out of its misery...
...word was coined for this kind of view: Titoism. Tito has once met Gomulka, who made "a very favorable impression. He is a worker, rather modest and reticent." Gomulka was less impressed by the vain Tito, privately referred to him as "a fat swine." When Stalin expelled Tito from the Russian family, Polish Communist leaders concurred in denouncing Tito, all except Gomulka, who said: "I don't know who is right or who is wrong, but we must end it all without publicity. We must find a compromise." He refused to attend a Cominform conference in Rumania where...
...still imposing enough to keep him well up among the top ten shows: his previous week's score had been freakishly high because he had shown clips from an Elvis Presley movie. Estimated audience for the Tosca scene: 40 million -enough to keep Manhattan's Met filled for almost 20 years. Sullivan's deal with the Met calls for four more operatic scenes starring such performers as Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi and Dorothy Kirsten. Said he: "We certainly have no plans to change our opera dates. This was just the shot in the arm our show...
Western missionaries cast an anxious eye toward the Middle East last week. Three hundred mission leaders representing 45 denominations met under the auspices of the National Council of Churches in Buck Hill Falls, Pa., heard reports that the British missionary effort in Egypt is "about finished" as a result of the British-French invasion. Two major British mission stations-about 25% of the total Protestant mission forces-have been closed. Some 60 British missionaries are under "protective custody" and will be expelled. The few French missionaries, mainly Roman Catholic, also face expulsion. The 300 U.S. missionaries will take over...
...results of the poll, submitted to J.D. Gisbourne, vice-President in charge of Student Affairs, were considered by a faculty committee on athletics, which met yesterday...