Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chances are that the Ivy League will expand in the near future, according President Pusey. Pusey said that the eight League Presidents have received normal overtures from Eastern colleges interested in the conference but never a formal application for admission...
...contrast, declared the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson in an eleven-page memo to delegates, the Communist empire is: 1) "the largest colonial empire which has ever existed in all history,''*2) "the only imperial system which is not liquidating itself but is still trying energetically to expand in all directions," 3) "one of the most cruel and oppressive ever devised." Warned Stevenson: "Because the world cannot long remain half slave and half free, the United States expects that the United Nations will focus its attention as carefully on the 'colonialism' of the Soviet Union...
...producers. Ranging from a West German levy that boosts the price of coffee to 35? a cup in restaurants, to the Common Market's exorbitant duties on cocoa, such restrictions actually work against the West's financial and technical aid to many underdeveloped nations, which need to expand exports to pay interest (up to 7%) on development loans. Duty-free admission for all tropical products, urged Nigeria's Alhaji Shehu Shagari, would "provide a real ray of light that would dispel the somber cloud that has shrouded the activities of this child of hope...
...fact, as Mattei knows, his first batch of 70 stations cannot hope to make much dent in a nation that already boasts 36,000 gas stations. But Mattei clearly hopes to expand his British chain rapidly by using the same tactics that he has employed so successfully in Italy, Switzerland, Austria and West Germany; unlike most British stations, the A.G.I.P. stations will offer American-style service (including clean toilets) plus the added attraction of snack bars...
...area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were willing to listen to any rumor that came along...