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...Socialist hootenanny in the St. Pan-eras town hall, Statesman Gaitskell cavorted like a regular chap, hurled himself with abandon into a rock 'n' roll session...
Three weeks ago, when EOKA offered to suspend its two-year-old campaign of terrorism if Britain would free Makarios. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet renewed a longstanding offer to end the Archbishop's exile provided that he publicly urge his countrymen to abandon violence. Makarios' reply was that of a man who clearly felt he held the stronger hand. Said he: "I appeal to EOKA to declare the cessation of all operations, provided that the British government show a spirit of understanding by simultaneously abolishing the present state of emergency [in Cyprus]." He also insisted...
...Since both groups belong to the same confederation, the engineers would probably follow the shipbuilders' lead.) There was, however, little likelihood that any of the strikers would now be content with anything less than the 5% increase granted the railwaymen, or that they in return would have to abandon the restrictive practices (featherbedding, rigid jurisdictional rules, etc.) which keep their productivity from going up as fast as their pay. Warned the London Economist: "The threat to the national economy . . . does not arise solely from the possibility of widespread industrial stoppages. It arises, too, from the possibility of inflationary settlements...
...lamp," because most of its members could not read. Leaders of the young new nations would probably agree that freedom is a risky venture, more, so than they once recognized, and that their worst problems persist after the imperialists get out. Yet who among them would want to abandon their independence...
...team since 1947 had sported a winning record, and basketball had sunk into a state of semi-abandon in the eyes of too many students...