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...over problems (e.g., Suez) about which only six months ago Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could say that the U.S. was not "primarily" concerned. The wider commitment was plain to see in President Eisenhower's last urgent letter to Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion, urging the "utmost speed" in withdrawal but promising to work for conditions "more stable, more tranquil and more conducive to the general welfare than those which existed heretofore...
...HAVEN, March 9--The varsity hockey team met and fulfilled its severest test of the season tonight. Playing under the utmost pressure, it defeated and completely out-played an inspired Yale sextet, 4 to 0, before a horn-blowing, violently partisan crowd at the New Haven arena...
This pair can hit well from inside and out, and will force Harvard's pressing zone to its utmost. Captain Ed Robinson (6-3) is leading the league in rebounds, and presents a scoring threat of his own. The two guards, George Thompson and Tom Sargeant, are capable ball handlers and play makers...
...worked to speed the screening process for entry into the U.S. They were hampered by the impersonal provisions of the McCarran-Walter Act, which took everything into account but the human heart. Nonetheless, under orders from Washington and by their own compassion, they were straining the law to its utmost to make their nation live up to the refugees' unseeing, unreasoned faith...
...Britain, France and Israel of planning "new aggression" against Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and Radio Moscow bristled against Turkey and Iraq. Just in case Syria's anti-Communist neighbors were genuinely worried about a foray from Syria, the U.S. State Department announced that it would view "with the utmost gravity" any threat to "the territorial integrity or political independence" of any member of the Baghdad Pact. This was also meant to remove from Turkey and Iraq any pretext for moving into Syria...