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...executive committee's selections must still be confirmed by the general membership. While committee endorsement is by no means tantamount to election, one committee member commented that any opposion "seems to have been pretty well routed." A membership meeting was scheduled for 7:20 p.m. Wednesday...
...Nationalist government then set up separate tribal colleges for non-whites. These farcial institutions have as much academic freedom as a medieval theological seminary; to criticize the government is tantamount to questioning the revered Aristotle. The politics of entering students are carefully examined, any political dissidents are quickly expelled...
...believes cannot come before 1970, Lemass has unequivocally committed his nation, which has 9,000 men under arms, to support of NATO policies. In 1949, at NATO's founding, the government declined membership with the legalistic argument that to join an alliance with Britain would be tantamount to recognition of Ulster, whose existence the republic has never accepted...
True, Palmer had won three tournaments and $31,545 so far this season. But for the "King of the Fairways," who won a record $81,448 in 1962, that was tantamount to abdication. Palmer's 1963 money winnings ranked him a lowly fourth on the list headed by Jack Nicklaus, who already had $56,215 in the bank. He lost the Masters to Nicklaus by five strokes, the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions to Nicklaus by five strokes-and he had not won a tournament at all in more than two months...
...states to rely on the good will of other sovereign states for their existence; and Kennedy has just provided excellent proof of this in the case of Skybolt. But France is being told that doubts regarding American willingness to jeopardize Detroit for the sake of, say, West Berlin are tantamount to treason. And such doubts might, as Reston clearly meant to suggest, result in a repetition of the American withdrawals from Europe after the two World Wars. That would really prove De Gaulle's point...