Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University has received Leningrad University's long-delayed reply to a letter written by President Pusey last June. The arrival of this letter, dated June 2, coupled with Saturday's extension of the Lacey-Zaroubin cultural exchange agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, raises hopes in University Hall that some definite exchange steps may be worked out in the near future...
When a delegation of Leningrad professors visited Cambridge last April, it was agreed that the two institutions would trade lists of personnel for exchange. President Pusey's letter in June contained the names of Leningrad faculty members whom the University wished to invite and also the names of Harvard scholars who wanted to do special research in Leningrad...
...addition, the Pusey letter included certain specific proposals with regard to future exchange projects and suggestions concerning the financial arrangements of such programs...
Historic Error? "We are now in grave danger of being a permanent outsider as far as Europe is concerned," warned a letter writer to the Daily Telegraph recently, and the Economist noted last week, after De Gaulle's press conference in Paris, that "the British government cannot but have been painfully reminded how completely, for the moment, the power to influence events in continental Europe has been taken from its hands...
...they now hold, and urged an early meeting to discuss frontier problems. Such a move might be advantageous to China but not to India, replied Nehru tartly, since it would mean acceptance of Chinese control over large areas claimed by India. Nevertheless, he added, "the spirit of the Chinese letter is not bad." The Reds also returned ten Indian policemen captured in last month's skirmish in Ladakh, as well as the bodies of nine others killed in the same fight...