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What then is the objection to war now, war on as large a scale as may become necessary? Is it that our "military policy in South Vietnam has been a failure?" I agree. A more active policy is needed and is, according to the CRIMSON, being considered by the Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIGHT AND DETERMINATION | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

In point of fact, girls do attend Princeton: ten of them are enrolled in undergraduate language courses and live off-campus in a house with an unlisted phone. This 320-to-1 boy-girl ratio only goes to stress that Princeton is the nation's most conspicuous holdout against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Where Girls Are Inconvenient | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Just when it seemed that there had to be a vote, Quaison-Sackey came up with his nonvote formula. "If the Assembly will allow me," he announced in his staccato Afro-Oxford accent, "I would request each head of delegation to call on me in my offices behind the podium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: How to Hold Elections Without Really Voting | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

There was no objection. Awkward as the secret nonvoting procedure may have sounded, to the U.N.'s 115 member nations it was better than a formal vote-which would have forced the U.S. to challenge Russia's right to vote and ended the delicate search for a compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: How to Hold Elections Without Really Voting | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

Trouble was, the secret nonballot failed to produce a winner-which, under the U.N. charter, must receive two-thirds of the votes. A second "consul tation" was called for, and a third, but although Jordan was unofficially ahead, Mali proved unsinkable. In the end, Quaison-Sackey forged a compromise: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: How to Hold Elections Without Really Voting | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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