Word: whether
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...just conceivably be the exploratory prelude to the most important development in international economics since General Marshall launched his plan of 1947 on that flood tide in Atlantic affairs that has so spectacularly led on to fortune . . . Now everything suggests that a new tide is racing which could determine whether the decade and a half from 1960 to 1975 will repeat the last 15 years of success, but this time with Europe allied to America as intelligent benefactors...
While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum. "The conditions under which we work," declared one indignant Labor M.P., "are a public scandal." Last week, at the insistence of Labor's fiery, red-haired Boadicea, Barbara Castle, members of the House of Commons were at long last determined to do something about their own welfare...
...Kwame Nkrumah, 50. Last week the Accra Evening News, one of the Prime Minister's more effusive admirers (it manages to run one or more pictures of him almost every day), announced that next March the people of Ghana would get a chance to decide two questions: 1) whether their country should be a "full-fledged republic" no longer recognizing Elizabeth II as Queen of Ghana, 2) whether they approve of Nkrumah as first President for seven years. To the Evening News, there was only one man fit for the job. The man who: Osagyefo (Great Man), Katamanto...
...that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face of an all but preordained intellectual stalemate, was a greater emotional leverage, a more vibrant dramatic charge. Rex Harrison is a top actor and Peter Brook a top director. But whether it is the part's fault or the player's, the general is not an expressive enough figure. And whether it is the production's fault or the play's, The Fighting Cock needs both more thrust and more evocativeness, a right blending of the aromatic...
Baptist Evangelist Billy Graham agreed. Birth control, he said, is one of the ways of coping with the "terrifying and tragic" problem of overpopulation; there is nothing in Scripture that prohibits its responsible use, and most Americans practice it, "whether they are Protestants or Roman Catholics...