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...Telefunken electronics plants, its razor-blade factories and other industries are also sending salesmen behind the Iron Curtain. Last month East Germany ordered 1,500 railroad cars and $12.5 million worth of cable from West Berlin; the city in turn bought milk from nearby East German state farms, despite vehement objections from West Germany's powerful farmers' union...
Reaction to the White Paper was swift and vehement. Lohan resigned and the press was once more unanimous in its censure of Wilson. "I cannot recall ever seeing such a wholehearted condemnation of a Prime Minister's action," said second-ranking Tory Reginald Maudling. "Mr. Wilson certainly asked for it. It is one of his more unlovable char acteristics that he is never prepared to admit he is wrong...
...most vehement and colorful complaints are aimed at emergency care and diagnosis. One student says he went to UHS with an infection in his inner ear which had destroyed his sense of balance. He was dizzy and could not walk straight, but the doctor said nothing was wrong and sent the boy home. But the student refused to leave, primarily because he physically could not manage it. He was finally treated...
...make strenuous efforts to work with his students outside school passed a bitter judgment on his fellow volunteers in a special memorandum written for Peace Corps officials. After outlining ways in which he thought volunteers could improve education in their schools, he concluded by saying: "Oddly enough, the most vehement opposition to such proposals will doubtless come from the most unlikely of sources: volunteers themselves. We already know that Ivory Coast Peace Corps teachers are the highest paid, best lodged, best fed in the world. It is surprising that no one has as yet come up with the rest...
Fairlie's article, perhaps the most vehement attack mounted thus far on the Institute, alleged that the Kennedy family had moved in on Harvard to set up an out-of-town recruiting base for Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48. It was immediately rebutted by the dean of the Kennedy School, Don K. Price, who explained that Fairlie had made numerous faulty assumptions, and got his facts wrong in places...