Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the CCA remains in the minority, it can hope to make progress principally through compromise with the independents. But if it regains dominance and shed that check on its action, it is in the position to destroy the social balance of the city. Of the present CCA Councillors, only Mrs. Wise has so far expressed concern for this aspect of Cambridge life...
...present instance, while Khrushchev has been trumpeting that "Russia is the greatest power," secure in his disarmament declaration, China has been playing dog in the manger, having treated Khrushchev's visit as unimportant and having refused to issue a joint communique on the occasion. The trouble in India has been explained, so far, as a cover for Tibet atrocities or as an outlet for Chinese territorial expansion needs (Nehru's view...
...more interesting explanation lies in the possibility of a Soviet-Chinese deal, a patching up of present tiffs through a series of concessions on both sides. Russia, which is now concerned with keeping its bourgeoise respectability on the international scene, would get backing on its summit conference proposal and a promise of peace overtures towards Formosa. In exchange, Russia would step up economic assistance, wholeheartedly support the Chinese position in Tibet, and furnish nuclear weapons to its neighbor (perhaps in time to coincide with French tests in the Sahara...
...Dunster Funsters have gained a slight edge over other contenders in a tight race for the House fall sports championship, according to a survey of present football and soccer records...
...seminar experiment, coupled with the present policy of releasing sophomore standing entrants from Gen Ed A and the newly instituted trial of intensive, short-span composition instruction, is indicative of a new approach to the problem of teaching freshman to write...