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...foreign policy which will reach its goal, the landscape on the way must be closely observed. The caution Halberstam learned slogging through the jungles of Katanga is relevant to policy makers attempting to plot America's course abroad: "The relationship between African maps and African landscape is extremely haphazard...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Not So Much a Book as a Way of Life | 4/27/1965 | See Source »

...last-resort argument, that all illiterates are incapable of reasoning, would be self-defeating even if it were accurate. If the advocates of literacy tests argue that reasoning cower should be the basis of the right to vote, they must explain why a less haphazard system--I.Q. tests, say--should not supersede their simple tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beyond the Voting Bill | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...better half of the varsity track team pulverized Boston University in Briggs Cage last night while the scrubs and Providence College provided intermission entertainment with a haphazard contest of their...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Amoeboid Runners Divide and Conquer | 12/17/1964 | See Source »

...composer claimed that it is already possible to write something that would be recognizable as jazz but which would be suitable for a symphony orchestra. He hastened to point out, however, that the fusion of jazz and classical music into a "third stream" must not be a haphazard affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Composer Predicts Fusion Of Jazz, Classical Music | 12/17/1964 | See Source »

...Feast. Then Paris was drab, hungry and humiliated, poisoned by haphazard action against collaborationists, corrupted by the black market, weakened by class hatreds and inflation. Now its buildings are resplendent as the result of cleaning and restoration; the Parisian feasts at the most majestic table in the world, and all around him are the signs of his country's prestige. The swift Caravelle jet carries the name of France through the skies, and the world's longest liner, the France, carries it across the seas. French military power, so often frustrated, can take at least symbolic pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Two Decades | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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