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Within a few days of the election, Wyszynski had another chance to stave off disaster. A group of students in a college near Warsaw decided to stage a march on the Russian embassy, gathering support as they went along. It was 2 a.m. when the cardinal awoke to find a young student standing by his bed. The student explained the plan, and warned: "They are going to march at 4." Wyszynski leapt from his bed and sped to the college, where he roused the students and announced that he would say Mass. The would-be demonstrators thought that...
Last week's interim raise of 5% for G.P.s and dentists was designed to stave off mounting anger among doctors, but it settled nothing. The chairman of a doctors' negotiating committee who favored accepting the government's plan was forced by angry colleagues to resign. Britain's doctors carried on-overworked as usual-hopelessly divided among themselves as to the best tactics to pursue, but unanimous in feeling underpaid...
There was only one characteristically French way to stave off such a humiliating anticlimax: the Premier called in the leaders of the dairy bloc and promised an eventual rise in milk prices, if they would not demand one now. Mollet had special reason to worry about milk; it is one of the 213 items on France's official cost-of-living index. For weeks the index has hovered around 149. The day it hits 149.1, legal minimum wages all over France will jump 5%, triggering eventual pay increases for about twelve million French workers...
Would prolonged Senate consideration of Ike's proposals to spend up to $200 million for economic aid to the Middle East and stave off Communist aggression in the Middle East with U.S. troops impair this new doctrine's effectiveness? "I certainly have never quarreled with the right of the Congress of the U.S. to examine every proposal seriously, earnestly, and dig to the bottom of it, and contemplate its possible effects," said the President. But "time is important in this area because we know of certain developments going on that are not certainly in our best interests...
...excuse for seizing the Suez Canal (which he had long intended to do anyway). Then Dulles, in a correct estimate that Britain and France were on the verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly from one Suez Canal settlement proposal to another in his unsuccessful attempt to stave off the war. Today Ike has come to realize that in many areas he is his own best diplomatic agent. He regards the success of the Nehru visit as proof of this, and intends to make the most of the Eisenhower Approach during the long procession of foreign digni taries...