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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary Viet Minh from 1946 to 1954. Once more, a popular revolution, based on peasant discontent, broke out. Production and agriculture had already fallen by half; the peasants liberated by the Viet Minh from the burden of rent and excessive taxes were not prepared politically or economically to accept their return...

Author: By Walter L. Coleman and L. MICHAEL Robinson, S | Title: U.S. Battling Peasant Revolt in Vietnam | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...first half of The King and His Court Viansson-Ponte describes the public rituals and private tactics by which De Gaulle exercises his enormous power. There is, for instance, the formal introduction, a clipped ceremony in which the subject is supposed to accept the General's greeting and then hold his peace. De Gaulle has an effective way of dismissing upstairs who presume to start a conversation with...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: The Monarch and Peerage of the Fifth Republic | 2/18/1965 | See Source »

...Case does not accept the Student Congress proposal, Bundschuh said, he will not help prepare this week's edition of the News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. May Form Bootleg Newspaper In Response to Censorship Threats | 2/15/1965 | See Source »

...true that the House Committee members are willing to accept the extra burden, but there are problems nonetheless. First, there may be a conflict of interest as to benefits for an individual house as against the college as a whole; second, there should in policy be a division of power, so that no small group can control and speak for the whole student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN WITH THE NEW | 2/15/1965 | See Source »

...factors have created the competition in fellowships: applicants for an NDEA fellowship must apply through a specific university, and they are informed of their fate a full month before Harvard announces its awards. If NDEA fellowships were worth more than Harvard's the Administration fears, many desirable students would accept one at another school instead of waiting to see whether they have won a Harvard fellowship...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Fellowships for GSAS To Be Larger in '65-6 | 2/15/1965 | See Source »

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