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...public-school system. "I was trying," he said, "to head off a showdown between the state and federal governments-because no one could win it. They can use force to bring about integration, but if they do, it will require force of such degree that it will disrupt public education for a long time to come. I guess what I'm saying is that I see this as a dead...
...thundering cries of nationalism that rocked North Africa have failed to disrupt the lands to the south and west. Even Mauritania's powerful Emir of Trar-za, absolute ruler of 50,000 warriors, who stunned Paris by swearing allegiance to the King of Morocco last April, has declared: "No one can say that France has exploited Mauritania. On the contrary, it has been for her a burden." Most of French West Africa's present leaders want France to carry the burden for a long time to come-and France willingly does so in the firm belief that, with...
...done it? Nobody could be sure. Many took it as a warning of new anti-American activity by Communist groups still terrorizing the swampy country near the Cambodia border. But if the Communists had hoped to disrupt the Colombo conference, they had failed miserably. Dancing an exotic Brazilian samba to the music of a New Orleans jazz band at the Cercle Sportif that evening, an Indian economist announced happily, "The bombs had no effect whatever on our conference. This city is simply full of life...
...considered to be as valuable in France as in the United States, Aron said. The professor felt that it will be hard to combine Germany's strict economic control policies with the more lenient methods of the French. He expressed the hope that commercial disagreements will not disrupt Franco-German relations...
...before Captain Carson, Sinclair President J. E. Dyer challenged the program's premise that cheap foreign oil is endangering the nation's security by cutting down oil exploration. Despite accelerated exploration in recent years, he said, the nation's reserves are not increasing fast enough. "To disrupt and impair our sources of supply abroad and jeopardize relationships of industry that have been built up with foreign nations over a long period of years can result in a more serious threat to national security than any temporary excess of crude-oil imports...