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...wondered precisely what he had in mind. Last week the government introduced a "disclosure of information" bill that, as a first step in the program, proved unexpectedly easy to live with. For all the rambunctious tone of recent expressions of Canadian nationalist sentiment, the bill is sensibly designed to elicit the facts on the operations of U.S. business concerns and labor unions in Canada before the Tories consider further legislation...
Fifty years ago her grandfather had been the last British monarch to visit India. Stolid King-Emperor George V had to be reminded by his viceroy to wave to the populace so as to elicit the cheers befitting the occasion. Last week India's President Rajendra Prasad recalled pointedly that, back in that day, "the circumstances were different." But the unfond memory was not permitted to mar his granddaughter's visit. Although observers rated the welcome accorded President Dwight D. Eisenhower as more spontaneously enthusiastic, the pomp and the grand occasions befitting an empress were not denied Elizabeth...
From Lewiston, Idaho came an answering echo from gallivanting Jack Kennedy, who had not been saying much about foreign affairs lately. "Our leadership appears palsied," he said, "and sympathy, not respect, is the reluctant sentiment we elicit from our allies-sympathy for the President as a man of good will, but dismay at the shocking lack in presidential directive as displayed in the U-2 incident. The maintenance of peace and the security of Berlin should not hang on the constant possibility of engine failure...
Evaluation of this system follows the same lines that almost all of the projects do. Detailed questionnaires will elicit opinion and comment from teachers, readers, and students. Writing tests will be used to show the progress of students who are enabled by the contract correcting system to have more training in English...
...believe that the existence of God can be proven in a way that will elicit the assent of a rational person...