Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does the fact that the U.S. Government sent representatives to both the funeral and coronation of the Pope and none at all to the installation of the president of the World Council of Churches and National Council of Churches show Catholic influence in the government or just plain carelessness...
...Communist hammer, Mao also went to work on the Chinese economy. In exchange for technical help and machinery, he shipped out to Russia antimony, tin, tungsten and, above all, desperately needed food. Of the $2.2 billion in "aid" that China has received from the U.S.S.R. since 1950, almost none of it was a genuine gift; the $300 million surplus that China expects to run this year in its trade with the U.S.S.R. will go to pay off past Soviet loans...
...strictly equal basis with all other students. Many of the best players get no help at all. Dartmouth's Coach Bob Blackman. reared in the high-pressure big time (University of Southern California), reports with a lingering trace of disbelief that in his four seasons at Dartmouth "none of our first-string quarterbacks have required or received scholarship help." In the Ivy League, explains Harvard's Coach John Yovicsin, "football is one of the most important extracurricular activities. Frankly, that's where it belongs. There is not a boy in the league who has to play football...
...Beckett's menagerie of performing enigmas is now loose in the ballroom of the Commander Hotel, of all places. They are nasty little brutes, most of them, with none of the heartening docility of trained seals or tigers...
Certain adjustments were necessary when her family moved from Lawrence to Harvard, but Mrs. Pusey asserts that "I have no generalizations to offer about the Mid-West and the East. There are differences, none of them shocking, and most of them superficial. I think it may be easier for a youngster who wants to study to do so here, without having to hide it. And the old prep school myth--what they used to call 'lack of serious-mindedness'--doesn't seem to be true...