Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Policy Planning Staff. Three of these alternatives were: 1) U.S. adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which links the Northern Tier nations of Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to Britain; 2) U.S. proposal of a "Middle East Charter" that would invite the area nations to subscribe to a statement of social and economic betterment for their peoples, with no reference to military considerations; 3) bilateral treaties between the U.S. and individual Arab states. Out of these policy papers Dulles borrowed some ideas, junked a great many more, then evolved with the President what the U.S. press-not Eisenhower, not Dulles...
Profits & Losses. Togni's appointment outraged the Italian left. Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat was hard put to hold his Social Democrats in the government coalition. (Their departure might have toppled the Segni government, which won its last vote of confidence by a majority of three...
Canada's funny-money Social Credit Party, which was elected in the province of Alberta in the hungry '30s on a promise to pay "dividends" to all citizens, got ready at last to hand out the cash. Premier Ernest Manning's government last week set aside $11 million, about one-third of the revenue it will receive this year from the province's oil and gas boom, for direct distribution to the people of Alberta. Shares this year will amount to about $22 for every adult Canadian citizen with five years' continuous residence...
...comparatively easy nature of most of the courses is partly explained by the newness and subsequent growing pains of the Department. But now that Social Relations has become more solidly entrenched, it is good to see more demanding courses, and higher standards for concentration. The change for honors candidates requiring six full courses, including a graduate course, will certainly decrease the number of concentrators in the field and send some of the less serious students back to other fields such as English and Government, previously regarded as the "gut" fields...
...tightening of Social Relations requirements should increase the department's prestige, though probably not to the extent it deserves. It will be unfortunate if a field which is highly worth studying in itself and as a basis for liberal education, is not accorded more public respect...