Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's entry into the Common Market. In a thoughtful 108-page document, he and his 13-man commission last fall proposed negotiations aimed at allowing Britain to join, although slowly and on terms more acceptable to the Six than to the British. Though the French vetoed the idea, Rey remains determined. Rather than confront De Gaulle directly, as Hallstein used to do, he intends to look for a way around him. "The community must be enlarged," he said last week. "It is very likely that we will finid a compromise solution within the next few months. Before Easter...
...years old with his future before him and accepts to come work in the difficult conditions of Niger...for such young men and women one can have only admiration and consideration, and esteem. I believe that the founders of the Peace Corps promoted this...idea as a means to rediscover universal brotherhood, brotherhood among people. It is this rediscovery of man, of this brotherhood of human dignity that I say, Long live the Peace Corps...
Perhaps the biggest flaw in the idea of boycotting the Olympics is the assumption that there are enough white people in this country who care about the Olympics to warrant the protest. Sports may be one of the few areas in America where blacks have status, but can amateur athletic status be transformed into political leverage? I doubt it. Perhaps if pro stars like Bill Russell or Willie Mays were to refuse to compete in their sports until some particular bit of civil rights progress had been made and their white teammates joined them, then there might be a burst...
Radcliffe's College Council approved such a plan on Monday, seting the tax for college services at $270, and the Mather subcommittee of the Committee on Houses approved the idea in principle for Harvard in its report last month to the full Committee...
...tutorial will be open to all majors in the social sciences but will be limited to ten students. Marc Strassman '69, who originated the idea for the course, said that if a large number of people are interested in the tutorial "it might be used for a focal point to organize a big course in the fall...