Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
...seizing deans or buildings, a growing number of students are showing their dissatisfaction with U.S. higher education by participating in a gentler rebellion. Out of idealism (and self-indulgence), they are busily starting "free universities"-academic Utopias where students and teachers can pursue what ever subjects interest them without formal examinations, grades or degrees...
Willing to Gamble. Theoretically, the limit should work no great hardship on the Administration. The figure is exactly what Nixon requested in his formal budget presentation. The catch is that spending during a fiscal year is almost always substantially above the estimate made earlier. If the House bill becomes law, any unexpected but necessary increase would force a curtailment elsewhere in a budget that is already relatively lean in domestic areas. Thus the restriction could severely limit the Administration's ability to deal with emergencies and handle such "uncontrollable spending" as interest on the national debt and Social Security...
Thus far the demands have evoked no formal response. Nor are they likely to. More traditional churchmen consider spiritualism an outright violation of the Biblical injunctions against the occult. If a Christian seeks from spiritualism what he cannot find in his own faith, warns an article in the Anglican quarterly, Modern Churchman, he is not "far from the sin of Lucifer-the sin of pride." Nonetheless, Stockwood claims that his pieces in the Times produced hundreds of letters from believers who are convinced that they too have had ghostly visitors...
...committee says it is not affiliated with SDS although several SDS members are on it. "We are not an SDS group and we are not a non-SDS group," Keyssar said. Most SDS members do not come to commencement and SDS itself does not plan any formal action for commencement, the group said