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...increase in chicken tariffs is just the beginning of further bars against U.S. agricultural products, the U.S. has chosen to make it a test case in which to insist on American rights to a place in the Common Market food basket. It has urged the Common Market to rescind the chicken-tariff hike-which has cut U.S. chicken sales by two-thirds since last year. The Eurocrats on the Common Market Commission were willing to compromise, but were blocked by the Council of Ministers, who represent the six individual governments...
...S.O.B. Club. When things cooled down, many businessmen concluded that Blough had been wrong, and that if the President had only held his temper, the workings of the free market at a time of softness in steel demand would have forced Blough to rescind his price rises within a few weeks anyway. The President won a backdown from Big Steel when Chicago's Inland Steel refused to go along with Blough's move. Inland executives have repeatedly implied that they would not have raised prices even had the President not intervened...
...lawyer suing to rescind Bertrand Russell's teaching appointment in New York described Russell's writings as lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, untruthful, and bereft of moral fiber." The lawyer won his case...
...York Metropolitan Opera House has missed only two seasons: 1892-93, when the opera house was gutted by fire, and 1897-98, when the company was being reorganized. On two occasions, in 1948 and again in 1956, the Met has canceled seasons during angry labor disputes, only to rescind in the nick of time when the opposing sides came to terms. But last week the Met's big black stage door on 40th Street was locked tight again. This time the Met insisted that its gesture was not mere negotiating histrionics, and that it would take a near miracle...
...Reminiscent of Oxford's 17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...