Word: unpopularity
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...this time, members of the Veritas Committee had made themselves unpopular in both University and Massachusetts Halls. Though often well documented, their letters assumed a belligerent tone; when their efforts to elicit certain information were frustrated, the Veritas group resorted to polemic. Realizing their position and wanting to continue the fight, Kenneth Robertson and others decided that a completely new organization with fresh personnel might make more progress...
...ways, and out he goes. Last week, buoyed by a two months' world tour, full of cheer and confidence, assured of the U.S.'s continued $50 million-a-year financial subsidy, young (23) King Hussein abruptly ended the fifth premiership in 15 years of his able but unpopular strongman. It was a sure sign that the King felt safely past the crisis created in Amman by last year's murder of his Hashemite cousin, Iraq's King Feisal...
...second important move, Bundy specified that no applicant would be accepted this year only on the condition that he live at home or in acceptable local lodgings. "Forced commuting," unpopular with Administration and students alike, is thus eliminated...
Plotters Without Plans. The regime the free officers overthrew was probably the most unpopular of any in the Middle East. With iron hand, old Nuri had suppressed the political ambitions of the middle class, banned student activity, outlawed trade unions, forbidden freedom of the press. Scorning any mass appeal, Nuri governed by alliance with several hundred semifeudal sheiks who held 94% of the land. Thus, though Iraq is the only Middle East country with plenty of both oil and water, its peasants were as wretched as any in all Asia. And though much of the $200 million-a-year revenue...
...State Department, which recognizes the perils of a non-participation policy more clearly than most branches of the government, is virtually powerless to change the situation even if it wanted to. Its decisions on what is good for the country are already unpopular enough among other Departments to minimize the effects of approving attendance at the Festival. In future hearings, the fact of participation in a Communist-dominated activity would scarcely be mitigated by an ancient endorsement...