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However, Beer said yesterday there was still a "faint possibility" that the course would be offered next year if he could find someone to give the fall lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Sci 1 May Enroll Additional 300 in Fall | 3/23/1963 | See Source »

Naturally, Nikita claimed success for his own foreign policy. The Communists were winning the cold war. and all that talk about trouble with the Chinese was an "illusion." (Same day, Peking launched a new attack on Moscow's "fierce visage but faint heart.") Then, in his folksiest manner. Khrushchev told the people just how plumb lucky they were to be in Russia and not in the U.S., where elections are actually contested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Candidate with Three Suits | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

...That faint, cold smile appeared on the President's face, but he remained unruffled. "You are charging us with something, Mrs. Craig, and then you are asking me to define what it is you are charging me with. Let me just say we have had very limited success in managing the news, if that is what we have been trying to do. Perhaps you would tell us what it is that you object to in our treatment of the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Is Managed News, Dad? | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...faint gleam of hope shines on the varsity basketball team's horizon for the first time in three weeks--it could win a game. When the Crimson travels to Providence tonight, it will find a worthy opponent in the Brown Bears--a team which plays almost as erratically and neptly as the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Basketball Team Faces Bruins, Bulldogs This Weekend, Could End 4-Game Losing Streak | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Until the Master Plan transforms Berkeley into a more genuine center of academically oriented students, its size and diversity will continue to force many students to withdraw into their own cliques. For those many students caught between somewhat faint academic ambitions and intense social pressures, Berkeley will continue to be a surprisingly unrewarding and sometimes unpleasant experience

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Univ. of California at Berkeley: Cliques and Student Alienation | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

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