Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in history, a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church last week received a ranking Soviet leader. The Pope was John XXIII, an intuitive man more concerned with the fate of Catholics back of the Iron Curtain than with scoring political points. The Communist was Izvestia's Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who can carry a message directly and informally to Khrushchev because he is married to Khrushchev's daughter...
Academically, Saltonstall lets the faculty win. Given complete autonomy, Exeter's departments produce strong minds and pioneering ventures; the current faculty has more than 20 textbooks to its credit. On the other hand. Saltonstall suffers the fate of "democratic" administrators: criticism for being indecisive. In contrast to Andover, its aggressive rival. Exeter has raised only one new building in 30 years. But it is a place of such impeccable teaching that last fall it got 73 National Merit Scholarship finalists, more than any other U.S. school...
...Leader of the Band. No one can be quite sure where Arosemena stands between left and right. Taking office, he spoke earnestly of his love of democracy, but refused to join other hemisphere nations in condemning Fidel Castro. Not until the military threatened him with the same fate as Velasco Ibarra did he agree to sever relations with Cuba...
Spectators at Fiedler's intellectual Roman games should not be diverted by the lesser lions or Christians, though they are diverting enough in their way. Like the Negro writer Littlepage, who exploits his pigmentation so fraudulently that Clem claims he is in blackface. The main question is the fate of Clem, and whether he will become a tragedian, rather than a clown able only to howl: "Land where no siblings cried, land where our freedoms died, land where Lux, Duz and Tide...
...people asked the CRA to look at Washington Elms and Newtowne, two government housing projects of the 1930's and the only real slums in Cambridge. However, under present Federal housing provisions, Donnelly would not share the fate of Washington Elms or Newtone. The people also claimed that the CRA's Riverview project could not relocate the inhabitants into the high-rise luxury apartments with rents starting at $215 a month which would replace their homes. This charge was true...