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University Hall reaction was delayed, but one top official, who asked that his name be disclosed, commented, "We knew all about this ploy months ago, but didn't want to say anything. Boys will be boys, you know...
...would ignore the Chinese Communist ploy (see FOREIGN NEWS) of claiming sovereignty over sea space twelve miles off its shore instead of within the normal three-mile limit...
...that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made it clear that the Macmillan government could not afford the political penalties of rebuffing Khrushchev's ploy, and Macmillan himself drove that point home with a transatlantic telephone call to Dwight Eisenhower...
...Ploy & Counterploy. Publishing an English-language paper in Thailand, Berrigan frequently has to carry the World, Atlas-like, on his back. His 43 Thai compositors handset every word of the ten-page paper, and since they speak no English, regularly speckle the World with gaudy and sometimes bawdy typos. His general manager is a converted taxi driver; his star photographer was once his houseboy. Worst of all. most of Berrigan's Thai reporters cannot write English. After they cover a story, Berrigan has to debrief them in a game of delicate ploy and diffident counterploy. Sample...
Behind Rayburn's warning also lay a political ploy, aimed at shifting the responsibility for diluting the reciprocal trade bill from the Democratic Congress to the Republican Administration. Rayburn's friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also...