Word: topic
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...Matchmaking" of students and schools is another topic he wants the commission to discuss. "We will probably consider the problems of students who are unable to attend college at all. But what is also important is that many people who are in college are deprived," he said...
Some Skepticism. Beyond the civilities, serious discussions occupied their two days of talks in the handsome Elysee Palace. Much of the talk centered on De Gaulle's favorite topic: building bridges to Eastern Europe. After years of West German foot-dragging on East-West contacts, Kiesinger wants to follow France's example, but, he confessed to De Gaulle, the Eastern European nations remain skeptical of West German intentions. De Gaulle offered to instruct French ambassadors in Eastern European capitals to use their influence to convince the Poles, Czechs and everyone else that the Germans have indeed reformed. Furthermore...
Federal Failures. Another troublesome topic was the issue of federal-state relations, which has become one of the basic problems in the structure of U.S. society. One critic of the Great Society was Michigan's Romney, who made a somewhat oblique attack on Johnson-style federalism: "The people feel the stifling consequences of overcentralization, conformity, manipulated consensus and an arbitrary unchecked power." Romney, who clearly sees this as a major issue in the 1968 election, last week released one of his key aides, Dr. Walter De Vries, to work full time on his embryonic presidential campaign. Said the Governor...
...elders have been willing to adapt to the outward life style of the young, they have been far more chary of their inner motivations and discrete mores. Youth, of course, has always been a topic of indefatigable fascination to what was once regarded as its elders and betters. But today's young people are the most intensely discussed and dissected generation in history...
Friendship aside, Rep. Rivers will have to hold public hearings on the draft sometime before the present Selective Service Act expires June 30. He last held public hearings on the topic in June, when he declared that while conscription might be "inimicable [sic] to our basic concept of individual freedom, we as a nation recognize that the alternatives can only result in jeopardizing our national security and in turn, our precious heritage of freedom...