Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreed to act as agents for the Somalia Government's cattle transactions with Kenya, the 16-month-old trade boycott came to an end. News of the resumed trade was released by Bruce Mckenzie, Kenya's minister for Agriculture, who said in Nairobi that the decision was in the spirit of Harambee (pulling together, a Kenyan national slogan) and ". . . [it] results directly from the Kinshasa agreement . . . to find ways to end the border dispute...
...growing spirit of factionalism is a clear danger to the cohesion of the Atlantic community," said Peterson. "At the very best, its projection into the future implies a slowdown in the economic growth rate of the free world and a particular slowdown in continental Europe. At worst, it raises the specter of accelerating restrictions on capital flow and along with it those notorious handmaidens of capital control: tariff walls, trade wars and isolationist trade blocs. While these projected consequences have unpleasant economic results, the political reverberations could be awesome. We are marching steadily toward a dangerous confrontation between the rich...
...missionary spirit prompts us to put good art in contact with the undergraduates, interest them, get them to the Fogg. We have no desire, however, to lend out paintings for decoration," he said...
Paradoxically, though, the court's spirit, philosophy and thrust have often been credited to Justices Black and Douglas-or to almost anyone but Warren. Little has been said about the Chief Justice's role. Now that Warren, at 76, has begun his 15th term, two new biographies, by former Newspaperman Leo Katcher and Freelance Writer John Weaver, have just been published. Though both are somewhat sprawling and unfocused, they suggest that the Warren court owes much of what it has accomplished to Earl Warren...
...Advisory Council is the direct outgrowth of the Dow protest and the issues which that demonstration raised. By denying the probationed protestors the privilege to seek election to the Council, the Administration would undercut the Council's purpose and spirit. A wise solution would be for the Administrative Board to end probation for the demonstrators at midyear. Then the activists would have a fair chance to seek election, no regulations would be violated, and the probation would still have its deterrent effect. But even if the Board does not shorten the term of probation, the purpose and potential importance...