Word: moratorium
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Harvard tends to embody an aristocratic outlook which considers college a place to find a career rather than learn one. And it is the preppies, the upper class students, who drop out most from sciences. Middle class graduates of public schools are less college as a four-year moratorium, and tend to treat Harvard as a first step of a career...
Although the Soviet Union warned that it would resume its own atomic explosions if the West were to carry out any tests during the talks, the U.S. made it clear that it would not agree to any uninspected test moratorium until agreement was reached. Said the State Department: "The U.S. will continue to take such actions as it deems necessary to safeguard its national security until a controlled test-ban agreement is achieved." Thus, the Atomic Energy Commission will go ahead with the fifth in its current series of underground blasts, scheduled...
...Ministry of Information was less than a week old when its boss rose last week to deliver an ominous message. Said English-speaking Frank Waring, 53: "South Africa is going through a critical period in her history, and it is the duty of all South Africans to call a moratorium [on criticism] until the crisis ends." To South Africa's English-language papers, there was no mistaking the Minister of Information's intent: to lay heavy siege to South Africa's dominant press and the most outspoken press in all of Africa...
...increase the heat with his new Ministry of Information, presumably as a first step toward government control. But Verwoerd may never have to go that far if he can exert enough pressure on the English dailies-and the business interests that own most of them-to make a chauvinistic moratorium on criticism stick. "Naturally," says Johannesburg Star Editor Horace Flather, "it's preferable for the enemy to commit suicide. Then you don't have to murder...
...possibility that the U.S. might send troops to help preserve the independence of South Viet Nam (a decision Kennedy has not taken). Although Nehru was frankly horrified by Russia's resumption of nuclear testing, he clung to the argument that the U.S. should agree to a new testing moratorium, even without inspection safeguards against cheating. On only one basic issue did Nehru shift his position-and then, only by about an inch. "The President and the Prime Minister," said their joint communiqué, "concurred in the legitimate and necessary right of access to Berlin." But Nehru would not affirm...