Word: seals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision to reconsider the English diplomas rose out of last spring's meeting of the Overseers. At that time changes sought included: 1) a seal and possibly other decoration on the diploma, 2) a larger format than the design approved last year, which should be 3) wider than it was high...
...newly approved design (shown above) the text is set in a more ornate type face with unjustified side margins. The Harvard seal is embossed in the lower righthand corner, and a reddish-brown cluster of oak leaves is inset near the left margin...
Unless you propose to lose the cold war of ideas by default, some kind of national information program seems essential. While I applaud your undergraduate seal to lash out at evil, may I suggest that you might achieve more lasting good if you thought through your ideas a bit more. Cavilling criticism, uninformed although modish, is no substitute for hard and informed thinking in international affairs. The problems faced by USIA should, I feel, be your concern. They include building a large staff of officers trained in their own and their host country's culture, language, history, politics, and information...
...diplomatic china with every step. Van Fleet, who was U.N. commander during the heaviest fighting of the Korean war, is a bit of a hero to every South Korean, and often called "the father of the ROK army." Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals' coup d'etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. "The finest thing that has happened to Korea in a thousand years," declared Van Fleet...
Russia's most useful eavesdropping weapon is a tiny, kopeck-sized reflector. It was such a reflector, installed inside a plaque of the U.S. Great Seal in the Moscow embassy, that U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge displayed to the Security Council last year. When an infra-red beam is aimed at the reflector from outdoors, it acts as a microphone. Alternatively, but less reliably, the infra-red beam can be trained on any imperceptibly oscillating object, such as a metal lampshade or empty highball glass, that can act as a crude reflector for conversation...