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...controversy threatens to widen when the Faculty takes up other cases next week. In some instances, failure to publish is coupled with other criticisms...
...debate of the Doty Report, he asserted that there is a need to re-examine the General Education program since incoming students have more advanced preparation and are working toward different sorts of careers than in the past. And he expressed hope that the debate on Gen Ed would "widen into a discussion of what a college should be at this time...
Johnson also issued a pointed warning against further Red interference in Southeast Asia. "To any who may be tempted to support or to widen the present aggression, I say this: There is no threat to any peaceful power from the United States of America. But there can be no peace by aggression and no immunity from reply. That is what is meant by the actions that we took." To help spread that word abroad, Johnson asked Henry Cabot Lodge, former Ambassador to Saigon, to present the U.S. case in allied capitals...
...have made up your mind, you will most probably call it anyway. Otherwise, by breaking your word, would you not become a laughingstock down the centuries?" The 9,500-word polemic called Khrushchev's meeting "arbitrary, unilateral and illegal," and in the viciousness of its tone helped to widen the already gaping split between the two Red nations. To end the letter on a properly inscrutable note, the Chinese chose a poetic refrain from the Sung Dynasty...
Mutual Suspicion. Buyers are few, for European businessmen still have a royalist attitude toward broad public ownership by modest investors. A few Swiss chemical shares sell for $10,000 apiece, and no effort is made to split them to widen ownership. Hoping to keep out of the public eye, Belgium's biggest producers of chemicals, matches, beer and sugar do not even list their shares on the Brussels Bourse. The tra dition of secrecy is stronger than the desire to attract mattress money; European companies commonly report only the skimpiest information about profits or forthcoming products. The suspicion...