Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essentially military policy. Thus the fiasco of unleashing Chiang ("In an effort to create a world balance of power, we upset the local balance of power"), thus the Baghdad Pact ("Just because NATO worked in Europe, people thought the idea best for every region"), thus the utopian SEATO pipe dream ("We've armed an awful lot of people in Asia who would never think of firing a gun, not even at a Chinese communist...
Plans for a revolutionary "dream college" which would "train students to educate themselves" have been announced by the presidents of Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Massachusetts. The new institution would initiate teaching and administrative practices vastly different from those prevalent in most colleges today...
Returning home from Ghana, Guinea's Marxist-trained Premier Sékou Touré told cheering crowds in his capital of Conakry that the union was merely the beginning of "the dream of all African democrats-that of a United States of Africa." The enthusiasm was not unanimous. Premier Sylvanus Olympic of Togoland, a French U.N. trusteeship slated for independence in 1960; would like to join "an eventual federation," but was careful to add that this "will certainly not be easy." Poor Togoland could all too easily end up as a Ghana province, and some of its politicians...
Leighton said he thought no matter what "dream castles" there might be in the architectural stages, his most important task at the present was to "make use of the resources Dudley has now, to justify the faith put in it when it was incorporated in the Program for Harvard College...
Manhattan-born Shari has been aiming at one audience or another since she pulled her first rabbit out of a hat at the age of four. A broken leg in adolescence ended her dream of becoming a professional dancer, so she turned to ventriloquism. A year later, at 18, she had her own TV show, has had one or more ever since. Today her pell-mell schedule leaves her about an hour and a half a day to herself, during which "I look at my husband...