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Eating Crow. From the Laborites came shouts of "Ho! Ho!" and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell commented sarcastically, "The government deserve particular credit for eating so many words and even inviting Archbishop Makarios to the conference." Macmillan huffed back at Gaitskell: "He never has been and never will be able to rise to the level of great events...
...President, another is an influential Roman Catholic bishop, a third the governor of central Viet Nam. His pretty sister-in-law, Madame Ngo (TIME, Jan. 26), has little difficulty "persuading" her fellow Deputies in the Assembly to do as she says-no one dares oppose her. Continually threatened by Ho Chi Minh's Communist North Viet Nam, President Diem rules strongly, spends more money on jails than on schools. South Viet Nam must be scored a pro-Western country with authoritarian overtones. But in 1954, when Indo-China was carved up, few gave it any hope...
...Tree more than anybody else on Capitol Hill) became majority leader for the second time after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support-and so do I." Many an Administration measure squeaked through because the vigilant...
Yalies were considered "much less intellectual, conformists, gung ho." Princeton's Tigers were swept aside as "smooth, social-minded, definitely conformist...
...first issue of the Radcliffe News appeared in 1914. It was originally called the Fortnightly, but when it began publishing weekly it was forced to change its title. It confined itself to covering Radcliffe events, such as in 1914 the Freshman-Senior Tally-Ho Ride to the Middlesex Fells Observatory. It also noted the use of the Agassiz Theatre for a Harvard group called "47 Workshop," which was just beginning its career under the auspices of George Pierce Baker's English 47. Radcliffe was growing and changing at this time, and there was at first a great deal...