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...German Bab," an intensive course in elementary German, will stress the acquisition of basic reading skills and will include practice in aural comprehension. It will be open only to students who have had less than two years of German in secondary school...
...Shiite Moslems broke with the Sunnis .over naming the successor to Mohammed; the Babists broke with the Shiites over the successor to the successor; and, in more recent times (1863), the Bahais splintered from the Babists when Baha'u'llah proclaimed himself the true successor or Bab (literally, "gate" to Paradise). Last week the Bahais, who claim a membership of close to 10,000 in the U.S. (1,500,000 in the world), wrestled with a succession problem of their...
Heretofore, studying Russian at Harvard has been the privilege of a diligent few. The notorious difficulty of Aab and Bab, full courses compressed into a single term each, has discouraged many people who would prefer Russian to German or the Romance languages. Credit for two courses is small consolation for one who must fulfill the requirements of another field of concentration. The proposed course presents Russian, which is not generally available in secondary schools, as a vital second language...
...latest of the ring toughs that France breeds in its brawling hinterland on the far side of the Mediterranean. Even Parisian roughnecks from la zone (outer slums) are no match for scrappers who slug their way out of the free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat...
...riot fever reached its peak following the burial of Singer Carmen Ramos. Some 1,500 teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from the working-class district of Bab el Oued and members of the locally recruited Territorial army-they surged through Algiers streets toward the Casbah. Coolly checking window stickers of parked cars, they passed over those with European names, overturned and burned cars bearing Moslem names. They smashed Moslem shops, tore up the seats and ripped down...