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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worm's Progress. But if Germany offered no lively hopes as a topic on the agenda, why did anyone expect much on disarmament? The hopeful signs were few. Delegates from the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union have been meeting for a year in Geneva to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear-weapons tests. Early last week there was a nicker of progress. Soviet Conference Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin launched into a 45-minute attack on towering (6 ft. 4 in.) U.S. Ambassador James Wadsworth. According to Tsarapkin, Wadsworth's insistence that Russia must agree to study U.S. data...
...addition to accepting Project Awareness, the Regional Congress, held at Dartmouth last weekend, "discussed informally" the Harvard-initiated proposals to encourage a written debate on the theme topic in student newspapers of member colleges, and to submit to a general student referendum on each campus the resolutions of the Region's spring Plenary meeting...
...Divinity School Student Association is sponsoring Uphaus' talk, which will begin at 4 p.m. in the Braun Room, at Andover Hall. Uphaus will discuss the topic "Reluctance to inform--a case for civil liberties...
...Other Topic. All of the Western Big Four agree that disarmament discussions at the summit might bear eventual fruit. Although there is no chance that a single summit meeting could achieve the complete worldwide disarmament piously proposed by Khrushchev (TIME, Sept. 28), his seeming eagerness to shed some of the economic burdens of the arms race might lead him to make concessions on the all-important question of armaments inspection and control. "Reciprocal concessions" must be made, Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet last week, and this must not be interpreted, he warned his people, as meaning he would give ground...
...supplement to research, students get new perspectives on their topic from prominent guest speakers. For the Conference on American inflation, the School has invited Arthur Burns (former Economic Advisor to the President), the chief lawyer for David McDonald's Steelworkers Union, and Senator Clark of Pennsylvania. In coordinating top-flight outside speakers with its academic program, the Woodrow Wilson School sets an example which might be followed with profit in Harvard College...