Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, De Gaulle spent more time talking about tiny French Somaliland than any other foreign topic. Street rioting for independence greeted him in Djibouti on his visit last August, and the memory still rankles. De Gaulle announced that the Somalis will be given their independence if they opt for it in a forthcoming referendum. If they do, they will be sorry, for France will pull out entirely, and "certainly not engage its resources and its troops to support the appearance of a state"-which is at least brutally consistent with his views about the U.S. role in Viet...
...though the applicant obviously must have the marks. Thousands of private scholarships still provide for the bright student regardless of need and, in some instances, serve the donor's particular interests. Freshmen at Emory, for example, can compete for one $500 scholarship by writing an essay on the topic: "We Georgians are often our own worst enemies when we intentionally use colloquialisms in preference to standard English." Dozens of colleges have set up special scholarships or loan funds aimed at helping Negro students...
When the Commissioner of Internal Revenue has lunch with the ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue, it's a good possibility that Topic A will be taxes. So it was last week in a private Washington, D.C., dining room where ex-Commissioner Mortimer Caplin broke bread with Sheldon Cohen, the man who succeeded him last year. One issue Caplin wanted to talk about was lack of taxes, specifically from the tax-exempt organizations that profit so neatly from their publications...
...Radcliffe Alumnae Association will spnsor four lectures this morning and afternoon on the topic of "Toward Community: Exploring Alternatives...
...part of the 7th Annual Back to Radcliffe Day tomorrow, the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association will present four lectures on the general topic of "Toward Community: Exploring Alternatives...