Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans escalated the war, European students escalated their demonstrations. 5,000 students participated in a peaceful five-hour march in Liege in 1966, tens of thousands marched in the more militant demonstration in October, 1967, in Brussels, and then in West Berlin in February, 1968 students fought pitched battles against German police...
Some members of this first-year class fear the faculty will try to return to conventional grading. And they're not even happy with last spring's compromise. First-year student Ed Berlin said, "The system today is inadequate incorporating the evils both of pass-fail and of regular grades...
...delegates-from an Anglican archbishop to fervid Pentecostalists-had come to Minneapolis expecting something else. The six-day congress had originally been planned as a grass-roots session on evangelism, a follow-up to the more intellectual World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin in 1966. But in his welcome, Honorary Chairman Billy Graham promised that the meeting "will affect every religious group in the country in the next decade." Keynoter Oswald C. J. Hoffmann (see box) continued the warmup, warning the delegates: "If the Gospel is demonstrated only vocally and not vitally in the everyday actions of Christ...
Beautiful Evening. Capitalist Bill Graham was born in 1931 to Russian parents who had moved to Berlin only a few years before. Two days after his birth, his father was killed in an accident. In order to be free to work, his mother eventually placed Wolfgang and his younger sister in an orphanage. The two were transferred to France on a student-exchange program and then stranded there when World War II broke out. After the Germans invaded, the Grajonca children were rounded up by a Red Cross worker for a march to Marseilles; the girl died of malnutrition...
Speer joined the Nazi party in 1931. After performing odd jobs, he was offered an opportunity to remodel a party headquarters building in Berlin. Then he was hired to work personally for Hitler. "I was 28 years old," he says. "I sold my soul like Faust to be able to build something great. In Hitler I found my Mephistopheles...