Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy made it a point to give the red-carpet treatment to Ghana's visiting President Kwame Nkrumah, who, only last fall, was given short shrift by Former Secretary of State Christian Herter (who said that Nkrumah was "very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc"). Kennedy, Rusk & Co. chose to put the best possible light on Nkrumah's speech last week to the United Nations lending qualified support to the U.N.'s peace-seeking attempts in the Congo. Kennedy met Nkrumah at the airport, exchanged warm greetings, took him to the White House for "fruitful" private talks...
...true neutralism, but it would not, under any circumstances, tolerate Communist attempts to subvert, colonize or take over nations such as Laos and other countries in the area. To combat it, the U.S. would take any measures necessary. If Khrushchev, instead of damping down the dangerous fire in Laos, chose to fan the flames, the U.S. reaction would be immediate. For every two guns the Communists sent to the Pathet Lao. the U.S. was prepared by way of "escalation"' to ship three to the pro-Western army of Premier Boun Oum and his strongman, General Phoumi Nosavan...
...basketball team chose Gary C. Borchard '62 as captain for the '61-62 season. Borchard, a second team all-Ivy choice last year, was among the leading scorers in the Ivy League. He will lead a squad that lost only one letterman from this year's squad, captain Robert S. Bowditch, Jr., '61. The team elected Frederick J. Keating '63, of Dunster House and Hartford, Connecticut, the most improved player. Keating played effectively in the final three weeks of the season to merit the distinction...
When asked why he chose Lipson's course over the University's Slavic A, one student replied, "Other graduate students in my dorm warned me not to take Slavic A. I was told you may learn to write Russian, but not to speak it." Another student said he avoided the University course because he had heard that sections spend all their time "learning to get the accents right." A physics graduate student who had taken Slavic A pronounced it "time-consuming," "medleval," and "a cook-book course...
...Brecht was an atheist who believed not in the truth, but in probability. In contrast to the agnostic, he did not doubt for the sake of doubting; he weighed alternative courses of action for the sake of choosing one, and he chose Communism not because it struck him as infallible, but because he saw it as the most likely instrument of anti-Fascism and social justice. Thus, in a poetic attack on revisionism, he wrote...