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Conspicuously absent was the French ambassador, who obviously reflected the pique of Charles de Gaulle. The banquet was in honor of the 150th anniversary of Waterloo, and le général does not agree with the British that Waterloo is a part of history that needs commemorating. Encouraged by Waterloo's restaurateurs, souvenir hawkers and the local tourist office, the British, West German and Dutch embassies in Belgium had planned a spirited parade and re-enactment of the battle on the original site twelve miles south of Brussels (which was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
With that gratuity, De Gaulle was off to Bonn the next morning. He was given a carefully correct greeting at Wahn Airport from an Erhard bolstered by his recent warm reception in Washington. But conspicuously absent were the festoons of flags and the cheering crowds that marked De Gaulle's first triumphal appearance in Bonn in 1962. Still, with national elections looming this year for them both, De Gaulle and Erhard tacitly agreed to disagree without visible image-damaging acrimony. For his part, Erhard agreed to leave open for the time being any increase in the Common Market...
...acid and sardonic Bundy, who in past months has belittled academic criticism of the government, was absent from the platform. Instead, a polite, restrained, and occasionally affable man fielded questions from a panel of critics that included: Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government; Albert M. Craig, associate professor of Japanese History; Thomas Skidmore, assistant professor of History; David Butler, president of the Harvard Graduate Political Club; Alan Gilbert '65, an officer of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of the May Second Movement; and Michael D. Lerner '65, a member of the CRIMSON editorial board...
...Dowey and his fellow creed makers, the real significance of the new confession is its emphasis on the theology of reconciliation, something largely absent from the traditional creeds, yet vital to the church today. How the commissioners felt about one form of reconciliation was apparent in the approval of a resolution that states that there are no Scriptural barriers to interracial marriage and urges Presbyterians to work for the elimination of the 19 state laws that still forbid it. Yet in drawing up the creed. Dowey explained, the committee was careful to avoid endorsing such things as sit-ins, since...
Noticeably absent from Dean Ford's plan is any mention of a computer. A report of a Faculty Committee, headed by J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, last year had urged total elimination of Master's choice and assignment by computer. In its reports, the HUC, asked that a computer be used to "tabulate" master and student choices...