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...these developments, Washington feels, will impel the rich nations in the so-called Group of Ten to hasten their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...
...threat of military escalation may impel the Communist government in North Vietnam to withdraw its nominal support of the Vietcong insurgents in South Vietnam, Bernard B. Fall, professor of International Relations at Howard University, said last night...
Speaking at a Tocsin-sponsored forum, Fall said that the silent menace posed by the United States' Seventh Fleet, and the bitter memory of 1000 years of Chinese rule might be sufficient to impel President Ho Chi Minh to agree to a permanent stalemate in the current conflict...
...above considerations impel us to ask that Harvard turn careful attention to the Dunster House Committee's action. We suggest that the "Student Council problem" is one that must be dealt with by the entire student body. Roger M. Leed '61, Eugene H. Zagat...
...strident opening arpeggio throughout his relentless score, and develops leaps of an octave and fifth into a towering mystical insight into the universe. When a Faure melody rises, we feel that it is doing so only to fall back to rest; when Bruckner moves upward his chromatic alterations impel the music to a new height of transfiguration. Indeed, the Te Deum proclaims less traditional Christianity than a musical cosmology, and this performance treated it as such...