Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formation of the Rassemblement pour I'Independence National, headed by Dr. Marcel Chaput. Merely a political activist group, the R.I.N. has done plenty of shooting, but has accomplished practically nothing. Chaput, dissatisfied with mere shouting, resigned form the R.I.N. to form his own political party, the Parti Republican du Quebec. Guy Pouliot took over the leadership of the R.I.N. Meanwhile, Chaput allied himself with Dr. Raymond Barbeau and his four-year old Alliance Laurentienne. None of these separatist parties will win any seats, they will only cut down some of the Caouette vote, also very dependent on right-wing dissident...
...affair, perhaps in Europe. It has been said that the industrial revolution emancipated woman economically, and that the contraceptive emancipated her sexually. In terms of creativity and morality, at least, the Sarah Lawrence education emanicaptes the woman intellectually. She fancies herself infinitely closer to Doris Lessing and Simone du Beauvoir than to Jackie Kennedy or Francois Sagan...
...Credit. The plan that is most envied, condemned and imitated was started by Jean Monnet in 1946 to rebuild war-torn France. A 30-man Commissariat du Plan-working with reports on demand and capacity from 3,500 businessmen, unionists, economists and educators-now estimates how fast France can and should grow. The current goal is 5½% annually through 1965, and to reach it the commissariat "suggests" investment and output levels for each major industry and producer. The theory: if appliance makers can be led to expect a 5½% increase in consumer demand, they will increase production...
...Du Pont Company has awarded Radcliffe a $10,000 post-graduate fellowship in chemistry, mathematics, or physics. It will be awarded to a promising first year graduate student who is specializing in one of the three disciplines...
With aid from du Pont and the Ford Foundation, among others, he was able to meet the competition of scholarships offered by other professionals schools. "The vigor of the campaign--for such it was--was rather unusual for an institution of higher learning," Sizer reports...