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...Vassar incident seemed to soften the views of some of Radcliffe's anti-sex league. One ardent opponent of the proposed change in sign-out rules said, "I don't think the Administration should go quite that far...You shouldn't have to pass a virginity test before you enter or leave college...
...Blackball. Sympathetic Pentagon officials recommended White House approval; even General Maxwell D. Taylor. Kennedy's personal military adviser, came back from his European tour urging that the restrictions against France be relaxed. The soldier's argument: concessions to De Gaulle might soften his three-year-old ban on stationing of U.S. nuclear warheads in France, might induce him to put returning troops from Algeria under NATO command. But the State Department's advice -and Kennedy's own inclination-was to refuse. Let De Gaulle first make good his old NATO promises, they argued; moreover, including France...
...better-designed (by I.M. Pei) new buildings. Side by side with antiques that they picked up on foreign travels, the couple have put such odds and ends as a polarbear rug, a $10 coffee table and a butcher's table (in the dining room). To help soften the chilling effect of a lot of glass, including Shaw's mercury glass collection. Pat Suzuki introduced warm fabric colors, contemporary Spanish chests and floor pillows, and picked up a few Japanese items, e.g., candlesticks. Says she: "They were probably cheaper at Lord & Taylor's than we could have gotten...
...compromise; Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home promised the "absolute minimum" of verification (the term now used for detection and inspection). On the larger question of what the experts call"G. & C" (general and complete disarmament), the U.S.'s Dean Rusk suggested an intriguing scheme designed to soften Russian fear of inspection "espionage." It was similar to the plan of random geo graphical samplings proposed by Harvard University's International Law Professor Louis B. Sohn. Under the "Sohn Zone" system, each country would be divided into a number of areas; once the nuclear nations had reported their...
...stars come from every sort of ethnic and national-origin minority group. Many of them are bitterly vocal about U.S. democracy's failures. If enough of them had stuck by their original names, the resulting influence, through the vast popularity of the movies, would have done much to soften bias and reduce prejudice. No one would challenge their actions individually, but they could have served themselves better as a group...