Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Democratic National Committee is getting out of Jack Kennedy's appearance last month before a group of Protestant ministers in Houston. Kennedy's speech, and the question-and-answer period that followed, were designed to lay the religion issue to rest for the remainder of the campaign. Instead they were being used to keep the Kennedy side of the question alive. Last week, to the surprise of some local Democrats, a half-hour film of the Houston meeting appeared in prime time on eight California TV stations, distributed by Democratic headquarters in Washington. It was shown three times...
...Republican-controlled legislature balked, instead proposed a sales tax increase from 3% to 4%. Neither side budged. Newspaper polls showed that the public preferred a sales tax boost to an income tax, but Williams blocked a referendum. Result: chaotic insolvency...
...Estonia. But he did not regret his decision. "I am not a man of speeches," he said. "I did it that I should no longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs to take back...
...Harvard's more rigorous competition and more competitive atmosphere, once-impressive talent is devalued, and the careerist orientation it engendered weakens. Instead, the image of Harvard as center of liberal education, which draws scientists to the College, becomes the dominant theme in their approach to learning. The outsider's view of liberal education becomes their guide in an effort to attain...
Convinced that they are only continuing in the same kind of education, they expect to do well with the same low-work system that succeeded in school, a system peculiarly adapted to Exeter's unique teaching and testing system. When Harvard gives them C's instead of B's, and they are not taken as a superior species despite their conspicuous sophistication, they tend to react by doubting the worth of Harvard's system, pointing out its weaknesses and defects, and thus refuting its rejection of their performance. Substituting independent intellectual activity and creativity, both subjectively defined, they become mere...