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...Distinction. Stopping the intermittent bloodletting on the Gaza strip was Hammarskjold's most dramatic effort (TIME, April 30), but winning peace pledges along Israel's northern and eastern frontiers turned out to be his trickiest assignment. The Syrians, echoed by Lebanon and Jordan, insisted that they would not agree to a cease-fire unless Israel first promised not to go through with its announced plan for drawing irrigation water from the Jordan River. Israel would make no such pledge. Stymied for days, Hammarskjold finally found a way through. Doubling back to Jerusalem, he made the point to Prime...
...salvage men's trickiest task will be the raising of the light cruiser Kiso, sunk in Manila Bay in November 1944, by U.S. aerial torpedoes. Listing to starboard, her bow in the air and her stern in 25 ft. of mud, the Kiso lies with her ammunition magazines intact...
Princeton coach Dick Vaughan pulled the season's trickiest offensive play when he took out his goalie at the end of the second periods which 35 seconds to play. Cleary delighted the crowd by following with a shot the length of the rink, but it missed the cage by three feet...
...trickiest jobs in meteorology is predicting the path of a hurricane. As hurricanes drift northward, they become entangled in the "planetary wind," the broad, strong current of air that whistles around the earth in north temperate latitudes at heights between 10,000 and 40,000 ft. The planetary wind's general flow is toward the east, so when it captures a hurricane off the U.S. east coast, it generally pushes the spinner out over the Atlantic. But, as many a meteorologist has discovered to his grief, the wind is not constant in direction; it whips from side to side...
...state visit to East Berlin, where puppet Red Premier Otto Grotewohl paid unctuous homage: "No power on earth can settle international problems without consulting the Great People's Republic of China." Chou took Grotewohl at his word; he surveyed one of Grotewohl's -and Russia's trickiest unresolved problems, then observed: "Geneva . . . will favorably influence the reunification of Germany...