Word: references
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...term "crooks" to those who have been indicted by a grand jury but have not yet had the opportunity to make their defenses in court. I wonder, in view of the fact that proceedings before grand juries are absolutely secret, whether it is bad taste or worse to refer to rumors that the head of the Massachusetts "Turnpike Commission" (sic) would have been indicted, had he not died...
...been astonished to read an editorial propounding the thesis, on the basis of the abandoned proceedings in the courts against Owen Lattimore or the ultimately unsuccessful loyalty proceedings against John Stewart Service and others, that the Government service was riddled with "reds" and "pinks". Yet, among other things, you refer to the case of an official under indictment leading a Harvard Commencement procession without pointing out that the indictment was later dismissed or that the indictment had nothing whatsoever to do with alleged corruption...
...future the Bureau will do better to work with a few students effectively and refer some to other advisory agencies, rather than deal with many students less effectively. By thus limiting the size of its operation, the Bureau will have to formulate and report generalized knowledge about students' academic experiences to aid advisors and faculty at large. Hopefully, by the modest addition of just one more counselor next year, the Bureau will be able to continue its major role of student assistance in the quiet obscurity it thrives upon...
Gaullists, who refer to France's still inoperative nuclear deterrent as the force de dissuasion, have never been very precise about how or what it would dissuade. In the April issue of France's National Defense Review, General Charles Ailleret, chief of the general staff, comes up with a nuclear strategy custom-made to fit the force itself...
...vast Saudi royal family, including nearly 50 princes of the blood, assorted sheiks and religious patriarchs. The council issued a fatwa, a religious fiat, that declared Saud no longer able to govern and authorized his brother to "discharge all external and internal affairs of state without having to refer to the King." When the news was announced by radio, every transistorized tribesman who was tuned to Mecca knew that this time it was the will of Allah...