Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barely more than half of the chiefs of government are expected to attend. Many of the missing will be protesting Wilson's Rhodesia policy, which so far has failed to cripple the country's economy. The most vocal absentee: Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, who threatens to leave the Commonwealth entirely unless a full-scale invasion is mounted to bring force against its southern neighbor. Another absentee, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, is almost equally adamant. Arriving in London for the conference, Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai offered Britain an alternative: either invade or turn...
...Columbus campus of Ohio State University, which will enroll more than 35,000 students this fall, a random selection of about 200 freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences will be housed in two dormitories (separated by sex), attend English, history and arts courses together. All the freshmen at Stanford will attend English and history courses with students from their own residential units...
...compared with a normal 100 for the general population. This, in turn, reflects the fact that Catholic schools, despite a 129% growth in enrollment in the 17 years before the study started in 1962, are still selective in their admissions policies. Less than one-half of eligible Catholic children attend parochial schools. Moreover, because few Catholic schools offer much in the way of vocational training, they appeal primarily to brighter, college-bound youngsters...
Fittingly, Lin Piao's anointment as heir apparent to aging (72) Chairman Mao came at a vast pep rally for the cultural revolution. Foreign diplomats and journalists were not permitted to attend, but they could watch on television as 1,000,000 demonstrators carrying Red banners and pictures of Mao marched past Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. There, in the words of the official news agency, stood Lin, "shoulder to shoulder" with Mao, smiling and waving to the crowd...
Separate Doors. Under Verwoerd's apartheid laws, the "non-Europeans" are constantly reminded of a permanent inferior status. They are forbidden to ride in white trains, buses or taxis, to use white public restrooms, attend white churches, send their children to white schools, even to sit on park benches bearing the insulting words Slegs vir blankes (For whites only). They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says...