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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began as just another week of heat and torpor in the Congo. Sweating natives, as usual, loaded palm kernels into boats at upcountry river stations, while understaffed United Nations teams passed out powdered milk to babies and urged the villagers to expand their scraggly little farm plots. In Leopoldville, things seemed normal enough: harassed Premier Cyrille Adoula, struggling to hold his limping central government together, still pondered ways to whip Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe into line, and noted nervously that Eastern Province's Antoine Gizenga talked of breaking away again to win autonomy for his own ragtag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Savagery | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Perhaps in acknowledgement of the antagonism which its triple orientation generates in other parts of the city, the CCA has attempted recently to expand and include progressive voices from south and east Cambridge. A continuation of this policy should help to dispel misunderstanding on the part of both the CCA in its ivory tower and its resentful opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The City Election | 11/4/1961 | See Source »

...playwriting contest or of opening its main stage to short runs of original plays. The HDC might try producing one play that was frankly popular and could take polls in the Houses to survey Harvard tastes. The Loeb management and the Harvard student dramatic groups, in short, could expand activities to make the Loeb an exciting place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Using the Loeb | 10/21/1961 | See Source »

...past for its lack of courses. In view of the interest in fiction, however, "we are going to give more attention to the situation than we were able to last year or the year before," reports Walter J. Bate, chairman of the department. In a move to expand this year, the department has revived English 181, Narration in the English Novel, to be given in the spring...

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Economics 1 Enrollment Highest; Hum 5 Drops to Second Position | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...however, but the Federal government, that broadcasters fear. One of the radio industry's most jealously guarded prerogatives is its right of self-regulation. The Federal government has only a limited regulatory role in broadcasting at present, and the broadcasters do not want it to expand...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Spirits on the Air? | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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