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...other hand, the problems of the 1,000 graduate students are much more acute. With the exception of those from the British Commonwealth, most foreign graduate students come to Harvard with rosy expectations. Many look forward to an easy, unrestricted life, with little financial hardship. They picture the United States as a fluid yet very integrated society...
...major difference between this bill and earlier ones lies in the scope of the Board's responsibility. Whereas former proposals would have given the Board power to review the charter of any college (except Harvard, which receives charter rights from the Constitution of the Commonwealth) the present bill concerns only colleges originally chartered by the Board...
...years, he left politics to run the business after his father's death in 1957. Because he controls South Africa's chief source of foreign exchange, and is a man with an international reputation, the nationalist government endures his outspoken appeal for South Africa to rejoin the Commonwealth and to treat its black Africans better...
...yourself braumeisters fired off a stiff protest to Welensky, pointing out that home brewing "has taken place in the United Kingdom for centuries, and as the British emigrated to the colonies, this tradition has been accepted as the birthright of the ordinary man by every government of the Commonwealth...
Britain's blizzards were oceans behind as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured their sunnier Commonwealth lands Down Under on a 40-day, 30,000-mile trip. It was the first time in nearly a decade that far-off Fiji had glimpsed its Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while...