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...because "it was necessary to call Russia's hand in the game of economic competition. Dulles firmly believed the Soviet Union was not in a position to deliver effectively on all her economic propaganda offers. It was necessary to demonstrate to friendly nations, by act rather than by oral explanation, that U.S. tolerance of nations which felt it necessary to stay out of Western defensive alliances could not brook the kind of insult which Nasser presented in his repeated and accumulated unfriendly gestures . . . Nasser combined the right timing, the right geography, and the right order of magnitude...
...oral tradition of Hebrew and Aramaic underlying the Greek of the written Gospels made it necessary to use rough and often clumsy Greek equivalents for Semitic concepts. Hence, the treasury of scroll literature is enabling scholars to achieve new insight into the meaning of many passages. For example, the question of what the angels sang in their well-known announcement of Jesus' birth has long bothered Biblical scholars. "And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls...
...Little in Hand. On other issues, Hammarskjold was only slightly more successful. Typically, Hammarskjold tried, in the words of an aide, to convert the disputed passage to the Gulf of Aqaba "from a political to a legal question." He got Nasser's oral agreement to allow the UNEF to remain at Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely while the U.N. seeks an advisory opinion from the World Court as to whether the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, as Israel and the U.S. contend. Nasser reportedly also agreed not to rush Egyptian troops back into Gaza...
Riedar Sognnaes, professor of Oral Pathology and Associate Dean of the School of Dental Medicine, will become President of the International Association for Dental Research on March 23, in Atlantic City...
...these seminars the students are not graded, but instead they take a heavy battery of general examinations, both written and oral, in the spring of their senior year. These examinations are prepared not by the Swarthmore faculty but by outside examiners, who serve to prevent academic inbreeding. Students have high praise for the system, saying, "it means you're working with an instructor, not against him," because he neither writes not reads their examinations...