Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army itself (or in the Federal police force) must not be allowed to think that it has been encircled or unscrupulously outmaneuvered. As for the minor tribes, one may expect some of them to rebel occasionally and to be pacified, as under the British, by a combination of administrative reform and armed force...
...with "what schools should be like in the future, and to train people for service in them now." A school of education, he believes, must seek a balance between "the wisdom gained from detachment and that from commitment." The search for the proper mix between necessary involvement in social reform and a more aloof and thoughtful attitude toward education is nothing new, in Sizer's view, but the challenge for Harvard is that "no institution has so far achieved...
...foster world prosperity, which could be damaged unless the amount of money available to finance world trade keeps pace with trade's growth. Last week, Washington's money managers sniffed a scent of victory for some of their ideas about accomplishing that aim through world monetary reform...
Points of Progress. European countries have been dragging their feet about monetary reform, partly because they contend that the U.S. and Britain must first bring their balance of payments in order. Last week brought word of progress from both nations. President John son reported that the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit fell from $2.8 billion in 1964 to no more than $1.3 billion last year. Britain revealed that belt tightening had cut its trade deficit almost in half, to $772 million last year...
Expansive French. Even the French, whose intransigence has been a leading obstacle to monetary reform, seem less likely to give trouble this year. With the country expected to pursue a more expansionist domestic economic policy now that doctrinaire former Premier Michel Debré has replaced Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as Charles de Gaulle's Economics and Finance Minister, the French will presumably run a smaller trade surplus. If so, France will have fewer dollars to trade for U.S. gold-and should be more inclined to reach an accommodation with the rest of the West...