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...mind a bit of reasonable fun with Harvard from time to time," Belin declared, "but I don't like to see the City Council in favor of something prohibited by the laws of the Commonwealth...
Frank Knox memorial fellowships, providing a year of study in one of the nations of the British Commonwealth, have been awarded to eight seniors: Keith H. Basso, Joseph L. Featherstone, Mitchell H. Gall, Burt P. Johnson Jr., Robert J. Klein, Norton D. Lang, Peter W. Stanley, and Curtis D. McFarland. Students are selected for the awards, established in honor of Frank Knox '42, on the basis of academic and extra-curricular achievements...
...Ostensibly, the biggest obstacle is Britain's insistence that it cannot join unless the European nations agree to a long-term transitional period in which preferential tariffs for Commonwealth nations will be reduced by easy stages. As an opening gambit, Ted Heath offered for the first time to raise tariffs against the relatively small volume of manufactured goods Britain imports from the Commonwealth, then prepared to tackle the far more complex question of raw materials imports, many of which compete with commodities raised by former French African colonies that now receive preferential treatment as "associate" members of the Common...
...British membership, many feel that Britain cannot become a "European" power without sacrificing its Commonwealth relations, a dilemma memorably described by Cartoonist Cummings (see cut). But the founding father of European unity, France's Jean Monnet, last week assured Britain that Market members are eager for it to join. The farsighted Monnet, 73. gazed even beyond the day when continental Europe and Britain will merge, predicted that European unity "will play a vital part in creating conditions leading to real peace between East and West." Said Monnet: "When the partnership of America and a united Europe makes it plain...
...election approaches, political are already beginning to evaluate performance and the record of John Volpe, the Commonwealth's eventh governor...