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waffle. Doubletalk, or sometimes bafflegab. See FOREIGN NEWS, Without Waffle...
magnetohydrodynamics. The study of "plasmas" of ionized particles. See SCIENCE, Gas in the Generator. presence. Being there, but unofficially. See FOREIGN NEWS, Extending the "Presence...
emerging peoples. New bureaucratic term for sensitive poor nations, replacing underdeveloped countries. See FOREIGN NEWS, The First Battle...
When he is not helping to ease that struggle, through classroom lectures and speeches to undergraduate organizations, Professor Duroselle retreats to his Widener study, where he is currently doing research on American foreign policy from Wilson to Roosevelt. His book, to be published next Spring, will serve as the introduction to a ten-year study of Franco-American relations. As director of the center for study of international relations, a branch of the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris, Duroselle is directing the research for this project...
Americans appear to regard cultural exchange as a vehicle to penetrate Russia's most neurotic fear of foreign institutions; the Soviets seem to forsee economic cooperation which will hasten the economic advance of Communism--and this difference of viewpoint was clear in the proposals: the United States sought exchange of teachers, students, and ordinary tourists, while the Soviet Union proposed increased emphasis on technology and trade...