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Perhaps more significant was the one-two victory in the 200-yard backstroke; Hammond and Murry, both sophomores, finished in that order ahead of Greer of Navy. This improvement in a varsity weak spot was clouded by the fact that Yale swimmers recorded times nearly five seconds faster over the weekend...
...One-Two. Within hours after he got back to New York from Cairo early last week, Hammarskjold began to make it clear that, according to his lights, the prime U.N. objective in the Middle East was to restore the situation that existed before the fighting started in Egypt. Reporting to the U.N. Advisory Committee on his conversations with Nasser, the quiet Swede indicated that he had freely accepted two fundamental Egyptian positions: 1) UNEF must withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone as soon as British and French troops leave Egypt; 2) repairs to the canal must await the Anglo-French...
While Egypt's enemies were still absorbing this shock, the Secretary-General delivered the second half of his one-two punch. In notes to the governments of Britain, France and Israel, Hammarskjold demanded to know what their plans were for withdrawing their forces from Egypt...
...popular support. He rode into the vice-presidency in 1948 under President Juan Manuel Galvez (the rebel major's father). In 1954, when presidential elections ended in a no-majority stalemate, Lozano happened to be sitting in for the ailing President Galvez, and seized power. Last August, hit one-two by an attempted barracks uprising and a case of high blood pressure, he turned over his authority briefly to a junta headed by General Rodriguez, then persuaded Galvez to stand in again as chief of state and went to Miami for a medical check up and long rest...
Next day the delegates-by-the-sea heard A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany second the sentiment: "I like businesslike methods, but that is the extent to which I want the word 'business' applied to a trade union." The one-two attack foreshadowed a meeting next month in Washington, where Meany, Dubinsky and other members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council will gather to take a hard look at the Teamsters' conduct...