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...seven nations meeting in Manila last week reasserted their desire for peace and their determination to bring the war in Viet Nam to an honorable conclusion. In three separate documents resulting from the conference, the allies also went a long step further. They laid the groundwork for an eventual Asia-wide security grouping under U.S. auspices. They emphasized as well their resolve to achieve a Pacific consensus on the peaceful development of the region's resources...
...Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Jozef Cyrankiewicz, already in town, suddenly decided to prolong their visit, and Czech President Antonin Novotny was due to arrive early this week. The presence of so many Red leaders set off a flurry of speculation. Had they been called to prepare the groundwork for expulsion of Red China from the international Communist movement? Was it some sort of a summit session on East-West relations or nuclear arms control? Or had they been invited to witness the launching of a giant Russian spacecraft with five to nine cosmonauts aboard? That was the hottest...
...close of World War II, he bought up small surplus army engines that had been used to operate communications equipment, adapted them for Honda-built power bikes that ran on fuel extracted from pine roots. When the supply of engines dwindled, Honda began building his own, and the groundwork for the present-day company was completed. Honda incorporated in 1948 with working capital of $2,777 and 34 employees. Cycle sales accelerated, the company grew, but Honda quickly tired of administrative and marketing chores, eventually turned them over to Takeo Fujisawa, an intense sales executive who has since risen...
...realized it before, Charles de Gaulle learned as much during his Russian tour last week. Admittedly, he was hoping to lay the groundwork for a European settlement. But as he flew to Soviet Asia and announced that he would later visit tiny Cambodia, the war in Viet Nam seemed to be a more urgent topic of conversation. The chief foreign-policy concerns of both America and Russia now lie in Asia. U.S. congressional committees and other forums heatedly debate the stability of Asian regimes, the aspirations of the Mekong Delta peasants, the nature of Buddhism. Understanding Asia has become...
...Faculty Committee on Distribution, in apparent response to a Student Council complaint that a Harvard education was no longer providing students with a common intellectual groundwork, announced that the next freshman class would have to take courses in each of the three areas of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Thus General education began at Harvard...