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...African nations still controlled by white minorities. Blasting the committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses, but not enough to make them abandon apartheid and white supremacy...
...millions of people have never seen a railroad. The ties that bind are the air lanes. In Santíago, Chile, last week, 30 Latin American and U.S. aviation officials, including FAA Head Najeeb Halaby and CAB Chief Alan Boyd, gathered for a five-day discussion of ways to strengthen Latin America's aerial life line. Out of the meeting came an astonishing picture of aviation in a developing continent of only 220 million people...
Clearly Ev feels that the time for Goldwater is now and he would strengthen his own position within the party by supporting him. Moreover, his political philosophy isn't always so radically different from Goldwater's. Besides, Goldwater will do the most for the Republican party in the fall elections. One could not of course expect Ev Dirksen to stop playing politics. But his hypocrisy in boosting Goldwater after earning plaudits over civil rights is monumental...
...surface, the decision seems to be in keeping with the present Court's tendency to interpret the U.S. Constitution so as to minimize states' rights. Yet by removing the glaring inequities in the representation in state legislatures, the decision should strengthen the statehouses by increasing their efficiency and attracting more capable members. And any upgrading of the state legislatures should, in the long run, make them less reliant on the Federal Government when they are faced with difficult state problems...
Lowell's administration worked to strengthen the academic curriculum. A concentration and distribution program was devised requiring students to take six full courses in one field of study. General examinations were given in the field of concentration. Beginning with the Class of 1914, tutorial instruction was offered in several departments...