Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tortured or even killed him. Last week the junta put their prisoner on display for foreign newsmen. "I have to tell you two things," said Theodorakis, who was dressed in sport shirt and slacks, not a prisoner's uniform. "I have not been mistreated, and the police behavior toward me has been very good...
Protest & Pollution. Similar student interest in current mass movements led Vassar to create a course on "collective behavior," which explores crowd psychology and protest drives. Pondering the polluted Hudson River flowing near their Poughkeepsie campus, Vassar girls also sought courses in environmental studies; the first one applies ten disciplines to a case study of the river as an example of man's relationship to his environment. Pomona College students secured an interdisciplinary seminar on "the urban quandary," while University of Pennsylvania student interest generated a series of sociology seminars on such topics as an "analysis of the Berkeley riots...
...Novelist Constantine FitzGibbon, intellectuals tend to follow a double standard. If the war happens to trigger their emotions, they don't worry much about moral behavior. "If the struggle is remote," he writes, "it can be viewed as an intellectual exercise and a moral problem. Stern judgments can then be handed down, and safely. It would seem that for the run-of-the-mill intellectual, the less he knows about a complex issue far away the stronger his moral judgments...
...normal times, Peking's flagrant behavior would have been cause for an instant break in diplomatic ties. But these days nothing is normal in China -vulgar displays of xenophobia are balanced against the value of having a man on the spot, a diplomatic observer who can help keep track of the anarchy raging inside the Communist giant. Thus the Russians have put up with having the wives and children of their Peking diplomats forced to crawl under portraits of Mao. Italy last week was enduring the truculence of the skipper of a Chinese freighter in Genoa bent on converting...
...effect, the modifications have made Apollo a brand new spacecraft that will have to be tested for structural integrity, vibration characteristics during liftoff, and behavior in a vacuum before it can be requalified for flight. Such testing has pushed the initial launch date for the Apollo series to early summer of next year. But this winter the spacecraft will face its baptism by fire in Houston, when NASA engineers try to set a full-scale Apollo ablaze under varied atmospheric conditions...