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...University professors will speak at the thirtieth School of International Relations, to be held April 1 and 2 in Sanders Theatre. The League of Women Voters conducts the school...
Bahrein, just 100 minutes by plane across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait, epitomizes the progress that can be made when a sheikdom has a good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab...
...dream of a modern, self-sufficient India. Last week, with three-fourths of the returns counted in the Indian republic's first general election, Prime Minister Nehru and his Congress Party recorded a smashing victory over the dragon. The far-right political organizations had collected only one-thirtieth of the total votes cast, won only ten of the 497 seats in New Delhi's House of the People...
...That in their totality these excerpts represent about one thirtieth of my story and much lass of Lawrence...
Perhaps Professor Kirkland can speak these words and go back to Maine with a clear conscience. But some of us, after three-and-a-half years at Dartmouth, cannot get off so easy. We don't lie awake nights worrying about how '51 will look at its thirtieth reunion (although it is a nightmare), we're more concerned with the way it looks right now, every day, this somester and next somestor, and how the College itself has looked since that fall of 1947 when we found the "roots of Radicalism," and President Tucker's "Liberal Tradition" to exist mostly...