Word: imbroglio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause of the current imbroglio is politics: Congressional and Presidential. Last March, the Marshall Commission recommended a random-selection draft system, as did President Johnson four days later in the Selective Service legislation he sent to Congress. Senator Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was initially opposed to the measure, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) convinced him of its merits. The bill the Senate passed allowed the President to institute a lottery on his own initiative without consulting Congress...
...time for action is now--not sometime this side of the indefinite future when HUAC arouses itself and starts Red-baiting the nation's students again. There is a sad chance that Harvard could become involved in a future HUAC imbroglio. Were Pusey to accept the committee's recommendations, he might be able to make HUAC finally realize that it cannot tamper with the academic freedom of campus student groups whenever it decides to appease the rightist fringe...
...eight" history tutors mentioned in your article Tuesday, I would like to clear up a point. The article seemed mainly to descry a "political" imbroglio in the department's controversy. This was not the case. The professors listened indulgently enough to our proposals--in full meetings, in committee, during ice cream and amid cigarettes. They disagreed with us. We hope for a continuing debate, perhaps next year: you could facilitate this by discussing the issues and canvassing student opinion. But by crying "politics," "unfairness," "big business," you insure that hard feelings will develop and discussion be cut off. It will...
...second largest trader after the U.S. Yet German political influence is not remotely equal to its economic power. In foreign affairs, Bonn is subservient not only to Washington, but often to London and Paris, and it moves uncertainly in the rest of the world; during the recent Middle Eastern imbroglio, West Germans felt that they were kicked around even by the Arabs...
...such a loud outburst that he could not go on. He tried again; "I appeal to you a same and honest Harvard man ..," but Karandas made motions suggesting physical violence, and Biff dropped the attempt. Bundie was stymied. There seemed to be only one way out of the imbroglio he had so deftly hammered himself into: he would have to reveal his secret identity as a University policeman. Sighing deeply, Biff reached into his right inside coat pocket for his badge...