Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federation and the Administration did seem to reach an uneasy agreement on the other major issue--that the present yardsticks for measuring the fifth-time teaching load contain inequities that should be eliminated. But they split sharply on the status and function of teaching fellows: the University has taken the very disturbing position that teaching fellows are not really Harvard employees but graduate students who teach as only a sideline. Throughout the Federation's campaign, the University has treated the group as though it represented only graduate students, not what one Federation leader called "the junior faculty of the junior...
...Never has the hypocrisy of Northern "liberals" been more clearly evidenced than in the riot at Dartmouth when George Wallace spoke there [May 12]. Apparently the ideal of freedom of speech these students pretend to cherish so dearly can be applied only to speakers who advocate views in agreement with their own. Dartmouth students would be well advised to follow the example set by students at the University of Mississippi when they cordially received Robert Kennedy last year...
Most of the negotiating struggle took place in the 150-year-old Italianate Villa Le Bocage on the west shore of Lake Geneva, once the home of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy and now headquarters of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the sponsoring agency of the Kennedy Round. While newsmen waited outside in a downpour (or took shelter in the stable), GATT's British director general, Eric Wyndham White, cajoled and goaded the weary negotiators, personally drafted part of the final package of concessions, in which no nation got all that it wanted. "Even the greater economic powers...
Secret Details. Negotiators reached an antidumping agreement to prevent international sales of goods below cost, but its details (like those on most specific tariff cuts) were temporarily kept secret. However disturbing-and confusing-that secrecy is to businessmen, the GATT delegates consider it essential to enable them to codify the Byzantine complexities of their agreements in time for governments to sign them by June 30, when President Johnson's authority to cut tariffs expires...
There are some problems though. Stewart would have to break a gentleman's agreement that the Masters use to keep their social rules the same. And even then, all major parietal changes must be approved by the Faculty...