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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rain pelted a Chrysler sedan racing through the night toward Lincoln on U.S. 6, a straight and lonely stretch of Nebraska blacktop. The elephantine semitrailers, lumbering west, flung blobs of muddy film at the windshield as the car sped past them, slowing the metronome wipers to largo tempo. Inside, the three people huddled together in the front seat were as melancholy as the weather and the night. Bob Conrad, Nebraska's Democratic senatorial nominee, hunched over the wheel, peering grimly into the darkness. Beside him, pretty, black-haired Helen Abdouch, executive secretary...
...semicircle where sat the delegates of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Malaya. "The Soviet authorities would do better to explain why they have consistently denied the right of self-determination to the people of East Germany." Khrushchev glowered. Macmillan went on to lay the blame for the failure of past disarmament negotiations on Moscow's refusal to accept workable controls. Khrushchev's roar rang through the chamber. "You accept our disarmament proposals," he shouted, "and we will accept any form of controls...
...knee injury and will not play at all this year, and in the first quarter of the Big Red's opener against Colgate, McKelvey broke an ankle. He too is out for the season. As for Harvard, Charlie Ravenel, the man who has made the Crimson move for the past three years, sprained his right knee against UMass last week and will miss at least three games...
...most significant structural change in the U.N. during the past 15 years has been the decline of the Security Council and the rise of the General Assembly as the policy making organ. Under the Charter, the Assembly can debate, investigate, and recommend, but cannot...
This is part of the basis for Black's most fervent wish: that "development diplomacy be given a separate and distinct status" in the strategy of the West. If it is not, he warns, economic aid will continue to be used as it has been in the past: "as a reward for a military alliance or a diplomatic concession, or as a last-ditch attempt to retrieve a diplomatic miscalculation... Economic aid, after all, does not just subsidize people; it influences events...