Word: weste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jolly Good Fellow. Cynics muttered that the singers must be Foreign Office men in disguise, but if the visit had not endeared Adenauer and the British to each other, it had at least reduced their mutual distrust. "It is from France and not West Germany," sighed the Guardian, "that Britain is now most seriously divided...
...Monty told reporters he found it "very curious" that the U.S. had voted to condemn apartheid, because "it has much the same racial setup inside its own borders." Warming to a favorite subject, Monty added that the trouble with Americans is that, instead of furnishing "sure leadership" to the West, they go around the world saying, "What good guys we are." Monty also confided that he wanted to examine the racial situation in South Africa, but in doing so did not plan to meet any nonwhite leaders. In any event, his mind seemed already made up, for he told South...
...withdraw from Longju" on India's northeastern frontier, and pledging that Indian troops would not then reoccupy the border post. As for Ladakh, in Kashmir, where the Chinese have seized some 9,000 square miles of Indian territory, Nehru proposed that Indian troops pull back to the west of the line that China claims is the boundary, while Chinese troops retire to the east of the line claimed by India...
...scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist, as his enemies and some of his old friends are beginning to fear. The hundreds of English teachers he seeks, the new radio transmitter he wants as replacement for Conakry's present peanut whistle, the capital...
Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...