Word: informals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ghanaians, dancing in the streets, cheering, singing, many of them wearing white handkerchiefs around their heads and white clay on their faces as a token of victory. "Fellow citizens," announced Colonel E. K. Kotoka, one of the coup leaders, in a broadcast over Radio Ghana, "I have come to inform you that the military, with the cooperation of the police, have taken over the government. The myth surrounding Nkrumah has been broken...
Just before Christmas, nine years ago, the bulletin board at the Crowell Collier Building in New York carried a grimly humorous notice: "We regret to inform you that there is no Santa Claus." Crowell Collier was folding its two mass-circulation magazines, Collier's and Woman's Home Companion, and dismissing its employees. There was speculation at the time that Crowell Collier would soon follow its magazines down the drain. Instead, says Chairman Raymond C. Hagel, 49, the company has "gone through a whole life cycle in less than a decade." Last week the company announced record profits...
Above all, the administration should continue to disclose, fully and clearly, the requests it receives for information from local boards and should inform students of its dealings with selective service officials. For, despite its recent pledges on this point, students still doubt the administration's sincerity. In an area as delicate and serious as this one, absolute frankness is essential, and the administration will have ample opportunity to prove its good faith in the coming months...
...coalition dominated by the Saigon regime. A large segment of the peasantry has remained loyal to the Viet Cong underground, which operates as the main intelligence source for the Communists. As Charles Mohr reported from Saigon in Monday's Times, "the peasants have shown little inclination to inform on this structure and to help government activity. This is the central problem of the South Vietnamese...
Fred L. Glimp '50, dean of Admissions, said last night that there may be some major obstacles to implementing the new plan. It is not clear, he explained, just how the banks will inform schools of the amount of their loans; a school, therefore, may find it difficult to decide how much financial aid--in the form of scholarships, school loans or jobs--will be available for other students...