Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American college students are not as mature as their Brazilian counterparts because they have so little direct contact with the problems of their society, according to several of the Brazilian students now completing a two-week stay at Harvard...
...chief advisers on economic policy: Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller will leave Government service this fall, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon does not expect to be kept in his post for another Johnson term. Gordon has let it be known that he intends to stay, already has more personal contact with Johnson than anyone outside of his inner staff...
...ques' innocuous profiles of government ministers and long-winded explanations of French diplomatic thinking until their instructor could provide them with more valuable information. For his part, Paâques insisted that his pupils at least be apt. When an embassy official named Lysenko became his contact in 1959, Paâques complained crabbily about the Russian's "lesser intellectual capacity" and Lysenko's banal insistence on teaching him how to use a microcamera...
...Midwestern Republican-and one not notable for his admiration of the G.O.P.'s Northeastern "kingmakers." Moreover, Ev and Barry have long been warm Senate friends. Dirksen was instrumental in 1955 in making Goldwater chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, a job that put Barry into constant contact with Republicans all over the U.S. and gave him hundreds of far-flung pulpits from which to preach his views. Finally, Dirksen had said for months that he would back whichever candidate he thought would help the most Republican Senate nominees. He realized that Goldwater might hurt the chances of such...
...their independence at the same time as India. Instead, the 370,000 Nagas were incorporated into the Indian state of Assam. Fighting began in 1952, when the Assam Rifles tried to enforce Indian rule. Under the British raj, the Nagas were left more or less alone. Their chief contact with the outside world came through U.S. and British Baptist missionaries, who built schools and clinics and tried to put clothes on the Naga, which in Sanskrit means "naked." A vigorous and intelligent people, thought to be distantly related to the Indonesians, the Nagas are avid for education, skilled at terrace...