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Mossadegh also talked to U.S. Oilman W. Alton Jones, who, it was rumored, was trying to buy up Iranian oil (see BUSINESS). To his visitors, the old man seemed readier last week to make a deal with Britain than he had at any time in the last six months. Yet he still talked about $150 million, with no strings attached, as his price for reopening negotiations. U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson and British Charge d'Affaires George Middleton did not think Britain ought to pay that much, but they did bombard Washington and London with urgent pleas for some further...
Comment by the Deans' Office indicated that suspension can be justified, at least at Harvard. Assistant Dean Thomas E. Crooks said that he did not think that working at Stillman would make the wayward student "any readier to study." Dean Leighton said, "We used to have 'rustication,' whereby students worked on farms, but that went out a couple of centuries ago." No changes at the University are foreseen...
...faces, after Korea, is nothing more nor less than the assumption of responsibility for order and progress in Asia. History has placed that responsibility squarely on American shoulders; the American people, by their determined support of U.S. action in Korea, have shown that they are ready for that responsibility-readier than their leaders...
...lively and surely. If Russia did not want a world war now (as the Administration assumed), then it could only holler at increased U.S. mobilization; if Russia did indeed want war, it would never be at a loss for pretexts to start one. It was elementary prudence to get readier for Armageddon-or more Koreas...
...passage of years, said Barth, had made him "definitely milder-in fact, more peaceable and readier to see that, after all, one is in the same boat with one's opponents . . . To say 'yes' came to seem more important than to say 'no' . . . Theologically, the message of God's grace came to seem more urgent than the message of God's law, wrath, accusation and judgment...