Word: pres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proletariat," he once said. As an opportunistic Vice President under Jânio Quadros, he toured Red China, heaping praise on Mao Tse-tung's regime as "an example that shows how people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." Last week Goulart, now Pres ident of Latin America's biggest and most important nation, arrived in Washington for a seven-day visit to the U.S. A 21 -gun salute greeted him as he stepped from his 707 jet, and at the end of the red carpet stood President Kennedy. Said Kennedy: "We look...
Most non-American observers of the Vietnamese scene in 1954 considered that South Vietnam was doomed. Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem appeared to be a creation of the U.S., pulled out of the hat at the very last minute. In contrast Ho Chi Minh was the revered leader of the Vietnamese independence movement. At the time of the Geneva Treaty, the Viet Minh had considerable popular support. Combining their prestige as leading nationalists with successes at social reform in the parts of Vietnam they controlled, there was little doubt that they would be successful in the general elections to be held...
...peasant, entirely substantiated by the presence of American military personnel in all parts of the country. And in history of American military aid to the French in the Indo-Chinese war prompts many of the Vietnamese to consider America as heir of French colonialism and the unpopular Pres. Diem as its puppet emperor...
...Senator from Texas?" Faith v. Facts. Yet the defenders of local option often ignore the fact that U.S. schools are now controlled or influenced by many forces far beyond the local level. "However strongly we may believe that public education in America is still entirely a local matter," says Pres ident John H. Fischer of Columbia Uni versity's Teachers College, "the facts will not support our faith. Nor is there any likelihood that a nation whose regional differences diminish every year can meet its educational problems by ignoring com mon national needs." Statewide needs already take precedence over...
After the intermission, however, the audience was on much more familiar ground, as the Harvard Glee Club sang a motet by Brumel and a "parody mass" based upon it by Des Pres. The result, as seems to be usual with the Glee Club, was flawless...