Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...posts in the 16 preceding Cabinets that have tried, all unsuccessfully, to govern Indonesia since 1945. When Djuanda returned from a visit to Peking two years ago, he said: "Red China's claim of ability to extend economic or technical aid to Indonesia is nothing but a hoax...
However much they may differ, such programs indicate serious doubts about U.S. higher education. As practiced now. says Assistant Dean John C. Esty Jr. of Amherst, "most education is a hoax. You just don't get it by placing students in juxtaposition to books and professors for four years." The hoped-for symbol of education at its best, says Dean of the College Robert Streeter of the University of Chicago, is "the student alone with his books...
...long as there are over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan as "a great hoax." Largely unheard from: the silent majority of ordinary citizens who will doubtless gratefully collect and happily spend the dividends...
Because the "real" Oliver A. Yabook of the Register picture had since shaved off his mustache, the hoax leaders hired a tonsorially complete Harvard senior to impersonate their man. After receiving a standing ovation in the Union during Tuesday's supper, "Oliver" was frisked away to await the Yabook rally. At 7:15, a rented moving van stopped on Quincy Street and, flanked by two kilted swordsmen and a seven-piece band, "Yabook" strode to the steps of the Varsity Club. There, as the rally proceeded in darkness, Dupont agitators in the crowd led rival cheers and threw the evening...
Unless influential hoax-candidate leaders persuade the Union Committee to publish the results of this unofficial race, no write-in ballots will be counted. We believe that the votes should be accredited, however, since we think Oliver A. Yabook would prove an exemplary Jubilee Chairman. And, in the event that Lamont Dupont should lose, we are hoping that he will condescend to run for the HYRC presidency...