Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notably last week, just another week in the life of the daily newspaper, the break of the news seemed to dramatize the human scene at less lofty levels, to bring into focus the old, old fact that with the wise must come the foolish, the weak, the greedy and the evil. In terms of journalism, it was tabloid week. Two great universities were rocked to their foundations by campus scandals. Eleven students resigned from Yale after a 14-year-old nymphet, daughter of a well-to-do Hamden, Conn, family, named them as her partners (along with 20 others...
...long range, they decided "in principle" to establish a 20-nation Atlantic economic community consisting of the 18 members of the OEEC (the longstanding Organization for European Economic Cooperation, set up in Marshall Plan days), plus the U.S. and Canada. The details would be worked out by four "wise men": one North American (U.S. Ambassador to NATO W. Randolph Burgess); one Frenchman, to represent the Common Market Six (Bernard Clappier of the Finance Ministry); one Briton, to represent the Outer Seven (probably Foreign Office Economic Expert Sir Paul Gore-Booth) ; and one Greek, to represent other Europeans (Xenophon Zolotas, governor...
Until the wise men could ruminate and conclude, most European leaders contained their optimism. But the proposed new community would have one overriding merit: through it, the U.S. would for the first time be linked to Europe by economic ties as formal and binding as the military ties of NATO...
...wise chief keeps a supply stuffed in a hidden lenaka, the hollowed horn of an antelope or ram, to smear on himself or members of his family when good fortune is most needed. Among the 650,000 Basuto, he who holds the lenaka holds power. Everyone agrees that no one has had more powerful medicine than Mantsebo Amelia Seeiso, Basutoland's portly, domineering Paramount Chieftainess...
Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 was appointed head of the all-important Finance Committee, a Committee of the Whole which considers all important money measures. Mrs. Pearl K. Wise will chair the Ordinances Committee, also a Committee of the Whole, which deals with traffic regulations and zoning matters...