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Many types of anxieties can arise from the choice of a field of concentration: for the student torn between two very different academic interests; for the student who has aimed all his life at a particular vocation and begins to recognize a lack of ability in that field; for the student who has no idea what field he wants to enter and resents having been forced to make a decision in May of his freshman year...
...Hees and Acting Defense Minister Pierre Sévigny, there was only one course. Both men resigned. John Diefenbaker's party was torn asunder; his government had not been able to pass a single major piece of legislation in eight months in office; some of his most powerful Cabinet members would, in effect, be campaigning against him. It was hard to see how his party could conduct a coherent campaign. Lester Pearson kicked off the Liberal campaign by announcing, "The people will now have a chance to replace this government with one which I feel confident will...
...corner to buy some salami, was enchanted with the charcuterie where it was sold. "It struck me," he says, "as the sort of memory I would like to take home with me." He sketched the charcuterie with the owner and his wife and their cat and dog, adding some torn posters and wall scribbling. Sivard has been doing things like it ever since...
...party is torn between two leading contenders who personify the warring extremes within the party that took Hugh Gaitskell seven turbulent years to pacify. Top right-wing candidate is Deputy Leader George Brown, an earthy, onetime errand boy who infuriates leftist intellectuals by addressing them as "brother." Brown, 48, is a staunch antiCommunist, a firm believer in the Western alliance, and, until Gaitskell committed the party to an anti-European line, was a vigorous advocate of British membership in the Common Market...
...south are black Africans, who know that in the days before British rule Arab traders sold their ancestors into slavery and have long sought some measure of local autonomy from Dictator Ibrahim Abboud's all-Moslem government. Since Independence Day in 1956, the Southern Sudan has been intermittently torn by riots, strikes and revolts. The government charges that European and American missionaries backed the insurrections, and has steadily cut into Christian religious rights. Friday was made the national day of rest in place of Sunday. In 1957, the Sudan Ministry of Education expropriated all mission schools and hospitals without...