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...their boldest move since 1968, Mexican students three weeks ago marked the third anniversary of "La Noche Triste" by taking over the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico's largest technical school. The takeover is only one sign of the increased political activity. When newly elected Mexican president, Luis Echeverria, granted amnesty to the student leaders imprisoned since 1968, the student left came alive. The atmosphere in university centers has noticeably changed from one of lethary and outright fear to excited planning and organizing. Opinions which were once only expressed behind locked doors are now freely offered to reporters. Richard Hyland...
...great writer's boldest act of defiance thus far; his letter struck at the heart of the Kremlin's most ruthless and most secret instrument of terror. Specialists in the West speculated that the KGB, unused to such challenges, might well be tempted to retaliate by permanently ensuring Solzhenitsyn's silence. As a KGB officer told Gorlov: "We are on an operation, and on an operation we can do anything...
Side Effects. Tokyo has never lacked for master plans. The boldest was designed in 1960 by Architect Kenzo Tange, whose ambitious blueprint to extend the city out over Tokyo Bay attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists...
Mailer characterized Morris' departure as "the most depressing event in American letters in many a year. Under Willie's editorship. Harper's has been the boldest and most adventurous magazine in America. It's damned depressing to feel that another man gets hit because of you. I know I'm not going to write for Harper's anymore." At the beginning of his tenure at Harper's, Morris published Mailer's "On the Steps of the Pentagon," which subsequently won a Pulitzer Prize in book form as Armies of the Night. Last...
...plan is the boldest undertaken by any medical school and is a financially viable plan that can serve as a model for the rest of the country," Dr. Quigg Newton, president of the Commonwealth Fund, which provided the initial funding, said...