Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much of the world is undernourished, why does the U.S. not empty all those shiny storage bins? Why don't other nations, such as Canada and Australia, join in distributing their food surpluses freely to the world's hungry? The U.S. last year sent India 3½ million tons of wheat. Since 1954 the U.S. has furnished such nations as Italy, Tunisia, Korea, India and Formosa with about $1.8 billion worth of food, either as gifts or in return for payment in local currencies...
From the start, four schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, Swarthmore -refused to join the program because of the affidavit. Later, nine more-Amherst, Antioch, Bennington, Goucher, Grinnell, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's (Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law. Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman...
Undergraduates should have "first claim" on any deconverted rooms, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, commented. Both Finley and Owen emphasized that space might be made for "exceptional" graduate students, given the present problem of crowding, but no larger number could join the Houses...
...events. But despite these complacent prophecies, the evidence indicates that the alliance of the six continental nations has momentum on its side. Belgium, with the support of France, is now proposing that the Common Market mechanism be broadened to include political consultation. Greece, Turkey and Spain are clamoring to join the Common Market. As a pallid substitute of the Free Trade Area that it once demanded, Britain is forming its own economic league, an Outer Seven, bringing Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal into a loose tariff agreement. But the British, who privately admit that the Outer Seven...
...Keith Bureau, an Australian businessman and partner in the big Melbourne importing firm of Brown & Bureau. Three years ago he formed a syndicate with a U.S. businessman, an Australian pearler, and asked Japanese Culture Pearl Expert Tokuichi Kuribayashi, president of Tokyo's Nippo Pearl Co. Ltd., to join them in growing pearls in the northwest...