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...offer to shoulder 30-40% of the initial $2 billion cost of building the 25-ship fleet force. Other NATO members likely to participate are Turkey, Greece and-barring a sharp swing to the left at home-Italy. Belgium and probably The Netherlands also will sit in on final dis cussions, starting in Paris Oct. 7, to settle details of financing and equipping the force. The big question last week was whether Britain would join...
...flaming feminism that most antagonized the traditionalist Vietnamese. In 1956 she was elected to the National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...
...increase of the dis count rate, some leaders in Congress complained that President Kennedy had reneged on the Democrats' campaign pledge of "easy money." The Administration replied that the discount-rate rise is aimed at affecting only short-term credit in the U.S. and not long-term borrowing for mortgages and business expansion. U.S. dealers in foreign securities also grumbled that they now face hard times; such foreign shares as Royal Dutch Shell and Aluminium Ltd. plummeted on the New York Stock Exchange...
...country roads; city air is as pure as Connemara spring water. Off the Aran Islands, fishermen still go out in currachs, their ancient coracles, and never learn to swim because they know death takes longer if they do. Ireland has in abundance the qualities that often seem to be dis appearing elsewhere: kindliness, an unruly individualism, lack of snobbery, ease, style and, above all, sly humor. Though the Irish have lived much of their lives with bloodshed and privation, their tales of the bad times are recounted with as little rancor as if they were retelling the saga of Lugh...
...roots of these difficulties are the ideas of the founders of the Department. The attempt at broad interdisciplinary work in a field as vast as behavioral science demands an extensive diffuse academic organization, and the more the lines between dis...