Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banking heavily on his friendship with the West and his reputation as a reasonable Arab, Jordan's King Hussein went to the U.S. last week on a delicate mission. Speaking for both himself and his latter-day ally, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hussein sought U.S. support for softening Israel's hardening terms for peace. He went at the job with vigor. Seemingly popping up everywhere, the King dashed from TV stations to speakers' platforms to conferences. He appeared on Face the Nation, delivered a major address at Georgetown University, had lunch at Washington...
...limitations, it apparently gives De Gaulle the confidence he needs to strut on the world stage like the leader of a major power. It also obviates any reliance on the U.S., which he feels cannot be trusted to retaliate against the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons should the latter attack France. "We are worth more than that!" De Gaulle said a few years ago about what was, for him, a degrading dependence upon the U.S. The force furthers France's prestige, makes other countries more attentive to her voice in world councils, and, supposedly, enhances the pride...
...fact, there exists little similarity between what. The Freedom Budget campaign could be and what the Civil Rights movement was. The latter captured a country's imagination and made activists out of idealists--the same way the war has influenced even more Americans in the last two years...
...decidedly lighter vein. Princeton sang songs im Volkston from the U.S., Russia and a little town in New Jersey. With traditional libidinousness, Harvard sang Morely's Say, dear, will you not have me, The Old Maid's Song (from Pulaski County, Ky.) and Randall Thompson's Tarantella. The latter featured both a sensitive rendering of the accompaniment by Philip Kelsey and the perfect concordance of a police siren with a third-inversion F-seven chord, giving Cambridge the world's only police department with perfect pitch...
Smithies said that until the Dow crisis, he "wouldn't have recommended any changes" in Harvard's current policy of recruitment, which he described as basically the latter extreme position. Now he tends to favor prohibiting all recruitment on campus...