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...lockless, sea-level canal, blasted by buried atomic devices, may be feasible. It certainly is desirable for commercial and military reasons. Neither the larger merchant and passenger ships, nor the U.S. Navy's nuclear carriers will fit through the Panama Canal. Washington could offer to relinquish its sovereignty over the Canal Zone at the completion of a new canal or to renegotiate the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty, should a new canal not be operating within some agreed number of years--perhaps ten. This formula would permit Panama to say that it had won either renogotiation or the Canal itself...
...Crimson is a pretty good bet to be out to grab this one tonight. The team has no desire to relinquish the Ivy crown which has been Harvard's for the last three years. Nor are they in any mood to break an eleven-year tradition of not losing to the Tigers...
Moving into Birmingham in the first week of April, King and his group began putting their plans to work. Bull Connor, who had lost the election but refused to relinquish power, sent his spies into the Negro community to seek information. Fearing that their phones were tapped, King and his friends worked up a code. He became "J.F.K.," Ralph Abernathy "Dean Rusk," Birmingham Preacher Fred Shuttlesworth "Bull," and Negro Businessman John Drew "Pope John." Demonstrators were called "baptismal candidates," and the whole operation was labeled "Project C"-for "Confrontation...
Although the Elis supporters screamed for more, Harvard's line finally stiffened, and Yale was forced to relinquish the ball on downs...
Among the social scientists, May, an authority on American diplomatic history, received the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association in 1959 for his study of The World War and American Isolation, 1914-1917. Perking, a specialist on England in the 18th century, will relinquish the post as Master of Lowell House which he has held since 1940, to devote full time to teaching...