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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish troops set foot on Cyprus, warned the Greeks, it would not only mean war with Greece but would inevitably start a slaughter of Turkish Cypriots that no number of Turkish soldiers would be able to prevent. Yet so great was the public pressure in Turkey on Premier Demirel for quick action that the Greeks themselves despaired that the warning could halt the train of events. Athens stopped broadcasting weather bulletins so that the Turkish air force could not use them to plot bombing missions. Reports from Turkey said that the invasion fleet was waiting only for the onset...
Keeping Fit. Returning to the U.S. at the start of World War II, Funk continued his cancer research, later theorized that oncotine and oncostimuline affect the growth of tumors, and postulated that an imbalance of the two might cause the disease. All the while, he retained more than a proprietary interest in nutrition, served as a research consultant to the U.S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Corp., helped develop artificial vitamins...
...service would involve one weekly round-trip flight each (two a week during the summer season) by Pan American World Airways and Aeroflot, the U.S.S.R.'s government-owned airline. Though U.S. and Soviet officials agreed more than a year ago to start such flights, the Russians were understandably reluctant to pit their obsolescent turboprop TU-114s against the much faster (600 m.p.h.) Boeing 707-320C jetliners that Pan Am plans to use on the runs. The IL-62, with a 560-m.p.h. cruising speed only slightly slower than the Boeing, was the obvious Soviet answer...
...proposed merger would have required Vassar to uproot from its picture-book, 106-year-old campus in Poughkeepsie to the confines of New Haven. That prospect antagonized alumnae from the start; even students, who first greeted the idea of union with delight, seemed to have formed second thoughts. "Just think of losing this gorgeous place," said Junior Andrea Haber...
Harvard's departments won't start formal consideration of whether students can count pass-fail courses for concentration until next week--but there are already indications that Faculty opinion on the question is divided and that the departments may reach different decisions...