Word: merger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernadotte put out his first long-term peace feelers to Jews and Arabs. The gist of his "suggestions": reshuffling of U.N.'s crazy-quilt boundaries, so as to favor Israel in the north, Arabs in the south; merger of the Arab areas with Transjordan; unlimited Jewish immigration for two years; an economic union of the two states. Neither Arab nor Jew accepted these first proposals. But neither did they reject them outright, and Bernadotte was ready to follow up with more suggestions. Said he: "I will carry on with the discussions as long as may prove necessary and fruitful...
...main subjects: the Christian Doctrine of Man, the Church and the Modern World, the Unity of the Church, the Anglican Churches, and Questions Referred to the Conference. Under these headings, the assembled prelates will discuss such varied subjects as the new Church of South India (TIME, Oct. 13), the merger proposals between the U.S. Episcopalians and Presbyterians, liberalization of the divorce canon, the doctrinal bases of Anglican unity with other churches...
...know what I'd do without an hourly solitary cigarette in an exam," claims Mary Brant, Radcliffe '51, who opposes any merger. Harvard also has objections: "Girls are all right in classes, but in exams you have to concentrate," muttered an Eliot House sophomore recently...
Among those who approved of Provost Buck's plan were seniors and juniors who will not be affected by the merger, even if adopted, and many from all classes who believe that the whole scheme needs careful study...
...shall expect the Radcliffe student body," she stated, "to express itself through Student Council after investigating to see what advantages of our honor system may be retained if the merger goes through because of pressing administrative necessities...