Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financiers. Yet, for all its wealth, says Sociologist Dahrendorf, the Geldaristokratie "is searching above itself in the social hierarchy for its behavioral standards. But the space above it is empty." This, he suggests, accounts for the joyless, frantic materialism that characterizes much of postwar German life-"the medieval choir stall in the dining room, the conspicuous consumption, the complete lack of taste in art and literature." Complains one sophisticated young princess: "If the Ford Foundation really wants to do something for Germany, it should endow a salon in Bonn. Just a little salon. The old society is dead...
This is more the meaning of the Geneva stall--that the United States hasn't really decided yet whether it needs disarmament, contradicting Kennedy's stated desire. And then some fine day men like Dodd and Goldwater will learn whether limited nuclear was was a possibility, or not. Steven H. Johnson '64 Chairman of Tocsin
Heavyweights Stall...
...willingness to negotiate on these terms, Nehru hopes to stall the Chinese at the conference table until he can get more military aid from the West. Recently, Nehru repeated his urgent request to President Kennedy that a joint Western air mission "get here as soon as possible" to study plans for the air defense of India...
India's Nehru had agreed to join Pakistan's President Ayub Khan in seeking an early solution to the Kashmir problem. But now India already was beginning to stall, refused to commit itself on either the date or place of any conference...