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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Greek and Turkish governments have finally found an agreement for Cypriot liberty, many problems still lie ahead. The tragic situation of civil strife, repression and reprisal which as comprised Cypriot life for the past years was the product of several conflicting 'interests, and not all these interest have been reconciled. The British have seen their Cyprus base as necessary to the preservation of their position in the Mediterranean, especially since they were required to leave the Suez canal. The Greek-Turkish proposal does provide that the British can retain their base on the island, and thus English approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chance for Cyprus | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, an informal organization operated jointly for the past 15 years by the officers of the Pierian Sodality of 1808 and the Radcliffe Orchestra, held an official merging ceremony Tuesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestras Celebrate Merger in Ceremony | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

With the coming of inflation, the income tax, mass culture and the popularization of art, the grand old Age of Acquisition has pretty much gone forever. If there are prophets in our midst to rival the Steins, the Caillebottes, the Camondos of the past, they have yet to reveal themselves. The free-swinging eccentricity of an Alfred Barnes was unique in its own day; the complexities of this decade make such a thing still less probable. And the ways of a Frick, a Havemeyer, a Johnson are, together with so many luxuries of a rococco era, simply impractical...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Student Collectors | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

...products of the past few months form together an epic quest of the American for his soul. The rock and roller starts off on his Twentieth century Odyssey by defining his goals of success. The vision which Billy Parsons offers of the goal rivals Dante's path through Paradise. Parsons builds on the Presley legend for his model...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...situation at Princeton has changed in the past year--it has changed enough for people there to adopt an attitude of cautious optimism, but not enough for critics of the club system to believe that Bicker represents anything but an extremely undesirable system. For, while last February's fiasco may well have overemphasized certain aspects of the Bicker problem, the current superficial success cannot help obscuring the many remaining defects...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Princeton Seeks a 'Meaningful Alternative' | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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