Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrorists, but last week, Britain's Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, grateful for the absence of incidents, declared in a broadcast: "In the past 21 days we have made good progress." If violence were abandoned "for good," promised Foot, Archbishop Makarios, exiled leader of the Greek Cypriots, could return to the island, and "we could finish with the emergency altogether." As a further gesture. Foot ordered 35 EOKA suspects released from detention camps "following a review of their cases...
Jews often tip the mailman to bring the return reply to them, rather than to the concierge, who is usually a Communist agent and apt to use the knowledge to grab the applicant's apartment or his possessions. When finally ready to go, emigrants must surrender all money and documents, and submit an inventory of their permitted 154 lbs. of luggage (132 lbs. for children). Furniture may not be taken with them, and it may not be legally sold. The emigrants are required to write and often to rewrite statements that they had never had it so good...
...return to the days of yesteryear, when a man was judged by his mind and not his Earned Run Average. Let them eat chipped beef
...food is more than made up for by the low cost of the six months abroad. The university charges only about $1,000-the amount it collects for a boarding semester at Stanford-for plane fare to Germany, board, room and tuition. Thoughtfully, Stanford officials made no provision for return flights to the U.S. Best evidence of Landgut Burg's success: the university is seriously considering a similar outpost in Florence, has in the back of its mind a Stanford-in-France and a Stanford-in-Mexico...
...critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth of new Kaiser stock. (The court fight lasted four years; characteristically. Cy Eaton won.) One of his biggest deals: helping the late Robert R. Young win control of the New York Central Railroad in return for control of the profitable, coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio...