Word: withdrawnness
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...mess of Communist chicanery. Admiral Joy decided that he would buy Nam's 79-word proposal-if his interpretation of it was correct. Was he right in thinking that the appointed "representatives" would include the Republic of South Korea? (Yes, said Nam.) Would the "foreign forces" to be withdrawn include the Chinese "volunteers"? What exactly did the Communists mean by "et cetera"? Nam asked for time out to look at Joy's interpretation...
Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will not deliver the Theodore Spencer Memorial lecture this spring. Harry Levin, professor of English and a member of the Memorial Foundation's invitation committee, announced last night that the group had withdrawn its invitation to Kazan. Another speaker will be chosen "within the next few weeks," he declared...
Apparently, things were almost back to "natural" again in Cairo. One by one, Negro parents had withdrawn their application for transfers. At week's end, only 13 frightened Negro children were in Cairo's six white schools...
...bill calling for a complete congressional investigation of sports, college and professional, has been temporarily withdrawn from the House Rules Committee. Representative Adolf Sabath (D-III.) delayed the vote after one member stated that the job was meant for local action and another member asserted that his constituents weren't interested...
...bowler from Lock, his tie subdued, his shoes black. It helps to have a rich wife. For the guidance of young Third Secretary John Bull and his wife, an official in the Foreign Office service four years ago wrote a confidential manual of procedure. It was distributed, but hastily withdrawn. Sample advice...