Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the compromise constitution worked out last year in London, Britain was to retain control of defense, foreign affairs and internal security. But last week, presumably impressed by Kenyatta's moderate words, Britain's MacDonald disclosed that all three would be transferred to the new government, and complete independence may well be won by the first of the year. A high British official in Nairobi expressed guarded optimism: "It's much more promising than I expected...
...same issue should also carry reports on the violence in Alabama engendered by the eruption of race hatred and bigotry. It would be wise to heed what Abraham Lincoln wrote: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain...
Trying to write of apocalyptic tragedies and future horrors, too many writers have lost their sense of human proportion. It is this sense that Miss Laski struggles nobly to retain in The Offshore Island. Mr. Bissinger's careful, expensive production in constructed with extreme theatricality. Its faults--an occasional vestige of television writing, a touch of melodrama--are overcome with considerable skill; and the significant theme is developed with no extra heavy-handedness...
...most fundamental problem is that many students do not accept the idea of a Radcliffe community: they feel closer ties to Harvard. Although RGA can organize non-credit seminars, living room talks and even discuss academic improvements, Harvard will always retain control of the classroom...
...would endanger their husband's lives. This fear is understandable, but abolition of capital punishment in other states has not increased the number of police officers or other citizens murdered each year. To deter those on whom long imprisonment can no longer have any effect the bill did retain the electric chair for criminals who killed policemen or prison guards while under indictment for murder or serving life prison sentences...