Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations could not get together on an answer at the North Atlantic Council session in Ottawa last September, the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman, France's Jean Monnet and Britain's Sir Edward Plowden were chosen to allocate fair shares for all. Last week the Three Wise Men, as their NATO colleagues have dubbed them, made their recommendations to the Temporary Council Committee (the Twelve Apostles), on which all NATO members are represented. Gist of the Wise Men's report: ¶I The U.S., Britain, Portugal and Iceland (which has no army) have budgeted a "satisfactory...
Actually, the Wise Men are asking only about $800 million more from all the European allies-not enough to equip and . maintain one division, with air support, through 1952-54. And the U.S. is really paying about 90% of the entire bill. Nevertheless, the air was thick with outcries. Most indignant were the Belgians, who cried that their high standard of living and control over inflation stems from sound monetary policy, for which the Wise Men now propose to penalize them. The Italians said they just couldn't afford more arms, because the Po floods had inundated them with...
...cries are the kind that diplomats, like traders in a bazaar, make in the first stage of negotiations; what matters is their final stand at Lisbon in February. But Eisenhower took no chances. For an hour and a half, he addressed the Twelve Apostles, arguing that they adopt the Wise Men's program as the only hope of establishing military "equilibrium" with Russia within twelve months...
...mommy, look at the t'ree hoss-hoss," a little boy said, pulling a wire whch guarded the Nativity Scene on the Boston Common. "No, Jimmy, for the last time--they're camels bringing Wise men to Jesus." "No, mommy, they isn't. T'ree hoss-hoss, hoss-hoss," he wailed, tugging at the wire...
Houser heads a tentative eight-man team lineup, and Coach Graham Taylor, who is director of the Student Employment Office, calls him the outstanding man at downhill and slalom events--the latter being obstacle racing around poles. Tim Wise, who played varsity baseball last spring is the stand-out jumper, according to Taylor...