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...competition is at least as stiff as any commercial broadcaster faces. Even so, Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi has described himself as a listener of Voice newscasts. Captured Viet Cong posters warn direly that "listening to the Voice of America is like letting a thief in your house who will steal your soul." Graduating Moscow high school students danced until dawn to VOA music in Red Square last spring. In the forests of Togo, one Christian Agbeze spends three hours a day-one hour down a mountain and two hours up-walking to the nearest village with...
...Zealand's national elections, Viet Nam was also the No. 1 issue, though 'Prime Minister Keith J. Holyoake has thus far committed only a battery of 150 men. His opposition insists that that is 150 too many, but Holyoake took to the stump to warn his countrymen: "The whole of New Zealand would hang its head in shame if we withdrew our troops." Unashamedly, New Zealand's 1,200,000 voters gave Holyoake's liberal, socialist-minded National Party a majority of 44 seats in the country's 80-seat Parliament-a loss of only...
...Lure. Many economists warn that the fast wage pace must be slowed if European prosperity is not to be seriously undermined by inflation. Europe, nonetheless, has made the same transition to a worker-boosted consumer economy that the U.S. made in the years that followed the wars. And the surge in consumer buying power has been a main lure to American companies investing abroad...
Watson has tentatively agreed to this plan, clearly to prevent further controversies similar to the one over Carmichael. He has said he would even warn the Committee if he thought a certain speaker warranted extra police at Rindge. But he has also said he will not be made a "censor" of who speaks at the school--something he would become if the current plan went through. The Committee under the current proposal could still reject anyone Watson proposed. To avoid another Carmichael controversy, Watson would have to judge how acceptable each prospective speaker would be to the Committee...
Having used eight pages to warn against dangling participles (As reconstructed by the police. Smith denied all knowledge of the murder), the book commits at least two: In calling them defensives . . . the intimation is . . ., and In closing, it may he useful to suggest ... It deplores neologisms but scatters its own through the text: educationese, initialese, sequelant, beslang...