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...Greek politics," declared the Archbishop, "he did not see the Cyprus question with a clear eye." But plainly worried that Cyprus' hard-won independence settlement might be endangered by Grivas' demagoguery, Makarios also began seriously considering a closed-door meeting with the fiery general to seek a truce. His only hesitation: the danger that by so doing, he might focus public attention on Grivas, thereby help to raise the unpredictable old soldier to the level of a real political threat in Greece...
...women were no more helpful than their husbands. Junior Leaguers worried politely about whether they were supposed to learn the feminine graces at home or in school; a suburban housewife announced grimly that "by golly, my husband is not going to outgrow me." Anthropologist Margaret Mead finally arranged a truce in CBS's planned skirmish between the sexes by explaining that women are becoming less feminine, men less masculine, and that both sexes are "behaving more like people." Whatever that meant, Dr. Mead happily added the observation that there will probably always be a noticeable physical difference between...
Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission in the North Africa campaign in 1942; in Paris...
...committing rape." He spoke mysteriously of wanting "a dozen butcher hooks to hang a dozen capitalists." He grumbled that Archbishop Makarios was not consulting him about events in Cyprus. Stunned Greek Cypriots began getting anonymous letters denouncing the archbishop as a deserter. Grivas now rejects the Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people." He calls for an eventual absorption of Cyprus into Greece though this would involve a breach of Greece's pledged...
Administration Pressure. So eager was Labor Secretary James Mitchell to bring about a steel truce that he went back to an 1888 statute (affecting the duties of the U.S. Labor Commissioner) to find authority for stepping into the dispute as a one-man factfinder. Said Mitchell: "In the interest of the American people, all the reasons for and circumstances surrounding the present strike should and must be determined. I will keep the President advised periodically as to the facts...