Word: succeeding
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...were in part an answer to Pearson's promise of a royal commission to re-examine biculturalism. It was also a thoughtful agreement with his concern that if the nation does not return to the founding idea of "equal partnership, equal rights, equal responsibilities, then we may not succeed in preserving Confederation at all. It is as serious as that...
After sitting on the three-man U.N. committee that negotiated the Korean ceasefire, Pearson in 1952 was elected U.N. Assembly President. For his unruffled performance. Pearson was nominated by Denmark, with Britain and France, to succeed Lie as Secretary-General, once again was vetoed by the Russians. The job went to Dag Hammarskjold. In 1955 Pearson took off for Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov-something that no NATO Foreign Minister before him in the tense 1950s had done. Pearson talked trade with the Russians, "did my best to disabuse them of some of their...
...their efforts to extricate Rep. Edith Green's aid-to-higher-education bill from the House Rules Committee, and instead to push for college aid through Kennedy's omnibus education measure. As the President knows, this is the equivalent of pushing a dead horse. Even if the Administration could succeed in getting its bill to the floor of the House, opposition from Roman Catholics to the provision for aid to secondary schools would doom it once more...
Radcliffe protects each student with rules for two years, before granting her anything like the freedom of every Harvard freshman. In two years she gets enough experience to make her own decisions. Even if her behavior illustrates irresponsibility, no one pretends that strict rules in her final two years succeed in protecting her from herself...
Stanley N. Katz, instructor in History and tutor in Dunster House, has been named the new Senior Tutor of Leverett. Katz, a specialist in American History, will succeed Richard T. Gill '48, who will become Master of Leverett next year...