Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students finally had the money to carry out their growing foreign exchange programs. CIA was able to guarantee first-class student representation at international affairs. The fulminations against CIA last week were based largely on the assumption that students had been "manipulated" for espionage purposes, but most critics chose to ignore the success of N.S.A. delegates in representing the U.S. abroad with vigor, eloquence and sophistication...
...British visit to Bonn. It raised West German fears that Britain seeks to build a special relationship with the Soviet Union that might well, considering Russia's implacable hostility toward Bonn, be accomplished at West Germany's expense. Wilson might have postponed either visit, but he chose to put them end to end. The Germans did not appreciate the timing...
...parents of 17-year-old Gustave Flaubert had sneaked a look at their son's private journal, they might never have urged him to study for the law. Fortunately for Flaubert, and for his future readers, he defied his parents and chose to keep on writing...
...will have to represent before the University will heed its demands. This is not a problem of numbers so much as it is a problem of militancy. With the organization in its present loose form, the University may not be required to take its requests seriously. If the administration chose to politely ignore the Federation, the leadership would have to confront the tough question: what do we have to do to make them listen...
Died. Sir Victor Gollancz, 73, British publisher and idealist of the left, founder in 1928 of London's immensely successful Victor Gollancz Ltd. (among his authors: Daphne du Maurier, George Orwell, John le Carré, Kingsley Amis), who was born into an orthodox Jewish family, but chose instead to live out what he regarded as "the Christian ethic," becoming an ardent socialist and Labor Party pamphleteer in his politics and a humanitarian in all else, espousing such diverse causes as the abolition of capital punishment, postwar relief for Germany, aid for Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli...