Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Harold Macmillan's government says it is eager to grant Kenya its independence as soon as possible, such problems as defining its frontiers and drawing up an acceptable constitution now seem certain to delay nationhood until mid-1964. Renison favored a cautious approach to Uhuru. But Whitehall plainly felt that he was too unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance...
...searching, the Kennedy Administration last week dragged its favorite talent pool, Harvard, to fish up a new U.S. Commissioner of Education. He is Francis Keppel, 46, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His new task is one that other top educators spurned, though most of them are eager to see it accomplished. It is to upgrade the U.S. Office of Education and to make it an effective federal voice in U.S. education...
...reconstruction next season will be less severe than last September, but numerous jobs are available for eager candidates. Dick Diehl and Ed Smith vacate their posts at tackle, and it may take several games before anyone is ready to completely replace them. Smith, who should with All-Ivy honors, was the best offensive tackle in the League, according to line coach Jim Feula. Diehl, while not quite so spectacular, was well respected by the opposition, particularly towards the end of the year...
Ernie Ziesis departs at guard, but a whole swarm of people led by captain Bill Southmayd are eager to step up. The replacement problem is a little greater at end, where All-Ivy candidate Dave Hudepohl and Pat Young have played their final games...
...Harry Truman carried Ohio, and the G.O.P. lost seven of the eight statewide offices that were at stake. With the party demoralized by defeat and torn by dissension, G.O.P. leaders asked Bliss, longtime chairman in Summit County (Akron), to take over as state chairman. Bliss was far from eager for the job: he had founded his own insurance agency only a few years before, and he wanted to retire from politics. He agreed to serve as chairman only after state party leaders promised to let him run things...