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Before leaving England, Eden sought to quell the domestic discontent with his leadership: "I want everyone to understand this," he told a Tory audience. "This country is not on its way down, and this government is not on its way out." But most of his hours were spent on preparing the diplomatic briefs he will present in Washington. His agenda, and the points of conflict...
Attempts to arouse the three by four College companions proved futile. The fire completely destroyed the interior of the building before a makeshift volunteer brigade, drawn from the resort's help and guests, could quell the flames. All were members of the A.D. Club...
Thus, Publisher Ferger hoped to quell the uproar over Enquirer management (TIME, Dec. 5) in which Ratliff had already been dumped as vice president and secretary of the company. But the firings,, only intensified the bitterness. At a meeting later in Cincinnati's Cox Theater, staffers sat in grim silence for 90 minutes while Ferger, 61, denied charges by Ratliff and Cronin that his own salary and bonus (1955 total: $104,699) and those of Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield ($62,319) were excessive. Moreover, said Ferger, financial backers had urged him to insist on a ten-year contract; while...
...police had the first work on their hands at around midnight last night, when they were forced to bar all entrances to the Old Campus to quell an uprising of 250 Yale freshmen brought on by the taunts of 20 Harvard students...
Such quiet restoration of the peace is typical of the University Police forces it almost always manages to quell annual springtime outbursts, or full-fledged football riots without wielding a club or swinging a fist. Instead, Lt. Matthew J. Toohy's 33-man force employs the subtler methods learned from many years of experience with College students...