Word: truce
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...illiberal" society referred to was the Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770 which was that year celebrating its hundredth anniversary. Pudding and its rival, the Pi Eta Club, used annually to call a truce just long enough to supervise jointly the election of Class Day officers, Harvard's only official Big Men on Campus. Fifteen members of the class of 1871 had tried unsuccessfully in their Sophomore year to form a club in opposition to the ones which were apparently rejecting them. The Class Day elections their Senior year provided incentive for them to attempt once more to form a society...
...Jordan River used to fan out into a four-mile swamp called Lake Huleh, the Israelis last month began to dig another of the drainage canals that have already reclaimed some 15,000 acres on the Syrian border for new settlers. The Syrians protested to the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization that the Israelis were digging into the demilitarized zone on their side. They opened fire, and the Israelis shot back. One Israeli, one Syrian, and one Egyptian officer of the new United Arab Republic army were killed before Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn...
...flames wrote a clear message on Cyprus' clear sky. After a year of truce, EOKA had lost patience, wanted action from Britain on its demand for union with Greece. Sir Hugh Foot, the liberal-minded governor who went to Cyprus four months ago talking confidently of compromise, had seen his suggestions pigeonholed by the Tory government, which discovered that every formula that would satisfy its ally Greece was vetoed by its ally Turkey...
...major problem to solve is prices-they must come down. "This recession is going to be cured primarily in the market place, not on Capitol Hill." In order to speed it along, "the best things would be for labor and management to get together and declare a truce on higher wages and prices until this thing is over." The Government can be of some help, though such highly publicized recession cures as a speedup in public works are overstated benefits. "A new post office in Podunk doesn't do much for the skilled man who is unemployed in Detroit...
...furious outburst from his Damascus balcony, Nasser abruptly ended his brief truce with the rival Arab Federation (Iraq and Jordan). Evidently Nasser was angered by the Iraqi and Jordanian foreign ministers' attempts to line up Saudi Arabia's King Saud for their union...