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...Reasonable & Generous." Undisturbed, British authorities on Cyprus announced that Sir John's offer would stand. Blithely they predicted that all E.O.K.A. members except "a few fanatics" would surrender. And to justify its stubborn refusal to deal with Makarios, the Colonial Office announced that recently captured E.O.K.A. documents proved "beyond doubt" that Archbishop Makarios helped establish E.O.K.A. and was "actually involved in the choice of individual victims for murder." Said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd: "We knew something of [Makarios'] complicity before. I must confess I found it very distasteful to negotiate in a friendly way, knowing his duplicity...
Vermont (6): At least 5½ for Adlai, with a stubborn one-half for Symington...
Revere glances up with the startled yet stubborn expression of Bob Hope. The patriot appears to be in the grip of some over riding idea - and the observer is tempted to ask about...
...obliging to Nehru, though the Chancellor scorns Nehru's way of thinking. Adenauer even went so far as to break his no-Sunday-engagements rule in order to take Nehru on a cruise up the castled Rhine. They met three times for four hours, and both stubborn men had the honesty not to feign a friendship they did not feel. When newsmen asked the Indian Prime Minister whether he accepted Bonn as the only legitimate German government, he made a characteristically Delphic response: "You want me to plunge headlong into the sea before I learn to swim...
...Stubborn Rich. What Labor proposed to do about unequal cultural enrichment, Towards Equality did not say. It left little doubt, however, about how it proposed to tackle "unjust" inequalities in wealth and income. In loving detail the pamphlet discussed the relative merits of a tax on expenditure rather than on income-Gaitskell has long been distressed by "the refusal of well-to-do taxpayers to react to high taxation [of income] by cutting down their standard of living"-and of collecting inheritance taxes in property rather than in cash, a device which would have the advantage of depriving the heirs...