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This confusion often tends to lessen the intellectual value of the freshman year, Monro claimed. The five Yard "Houses" would be an attempt to offset this danger by "extending the range of connection between students and faculty...
When the British sent Firebrand Jomo Kenyatta to jail eight years ago for starting the Mau Mau revolt, they thought they were putting "Burning Spear" away for good. To offset any lingering loyalty among his supporters, they put out reports that he was growing senile and increasingly alcoholic. But in the wake of Kenya's February elections, the triumphant African leaders made clear that Kenyatta was not forgotten. They demanded his immediate release. British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused. The Africans responded by refusing to take their seats in the new government. The governor began to retreat, moved Kenyatta...
Though Italian auto exports declined 8% last year, Italian automakers hardly noticed the difference. In their own country, the prospering Italians are switching in such numbers from scooters to autos that the domestic demand more than offset the export slump. Fiat, Italy's biggest automaker, plans to expand its Turin plant to turn out 3,000 cars a day instead of the present...
JAPAN'S TEXTILE EXPORTS to the U.S. fell 11.2% last year, largely because of the Japanese voluntary quota system (to offset objections from pressed U.S. textile producers) and competition from other nations for U.S. market...
...1960s," says Professor Mosely. "we shall, under present prospects, be dealing with a Soviet system that is growing rapidly in economic, scientific and military strength and which will have fewer rather than more difficulties in preserving political stability and an adequate measure of ideological uniformity. These growing strengths, not offset by equivalent new weaknesses, will enable its leaders to devote greater rather than smaller resources and political determination to achieving the world-wide purposes that have been proclaimed by Lenin and Stalin and now by Khrushchev...