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...students are participants in Project Tanganyika, a program sponsored by Brooks House to teach English and strengthen the bonds between the States and African peoples through personal contact...
...military forces of the free world whatever form aggression took. If adequate limited war forces are coupled with an invulnerable retaliatory force, the aggressor would be unable to benefit from either limited or all-out conflict.... The purpose of a strategy of limited war, then, is first to strengthen deterrence, and, second, if deterrence should fail, to provide an opportunity for settlement before the automatism of the retaliatory forces takes over...
House Seminars have accumulated interested students and willing teachers, and a list of shortcomings varying in significance. Perhaps they have concentrated a little heavily on Africa, and certainly they have done little to offer tutorial for non-Honors, but the real disappointment has been their failure to strengthen Harvard's ties with the non-academic community by bringing interesting local figures into the Houses...
...unlike the Soviet Union, the West wanted to strengthen, not weaken, the U.N. Since he took over the U.S. delegation three weeks ago, Stevenson has been energetically conferring with Hammarskjold, as well as with the Africans and Asians, in search of a "consensus" for a new formula that could break the long Congo stalemate. Hammarskjold wanted wider powers, enabling him to block money transfers from abroad to Congo banks and to search all incoming planes for arms.. But many sensitive African nations were wary of too much power for the U.N. For its part, the U.S. was urging Belgium...
...fell from a drain-pipe and hung for some minutes skewered through the thigh before his howls brought rescue. A few days later, this notice appeared on the College bulletin board: "Men are requested to make less noise getting in at night, or else we shall be obliged to strengthen our defences...