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...fact, an agreement over Suez should be the next beneficial step. Still to be decided is the form of Britain's withdrawal from its Suez Canal Zone base, jampacked with $1 billion worth of forts, barracks, flying fields and radar-and 50,000 troops. The quid for Britain's quo would be Egypt's willingness to join Britain, the U.S., France and Turkey in a Middle East Defense Organization, pledged to the defense, not only of the canal, but of the entire Eastern Mediterranean...
...think the time has come," he said, "to fill the sad vacancies in the Sacred College. Quid vobis videtur [What do you think]?" the cardinals doffed their biret-tas and nodded in assent...
...doodling pad, Australian Prime Minister Menzies put the problem thus: With singular agility And technical facility We seek convertibility Which means (I'll have you know) A quid for every...
...basis on which a specific corporation might give would be on the social basis rather than the specific--quid pro quo--return to the corporation," Dana M. Doten '39, Publication Agent for the University, said yesterday...
...Territory of Hawaii for admission to the union as a full-fledged state. Hawaii has been petitioning for statehood for 98 years-and from the talk in the cloakrooms, Joe Farrington knows the odds are against him again this time. Far worse, the talk in the cloakrooms is the quid pro quo talk of politics, e.g., if Hawaii is Republican, then we should let in Democratic Alaska. Joe Farrington's lament is provoked by the fact that nobody is asking the only question that matters: "What kind of place is Hawaii in the year...