Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reedsburg, Wis., the 12th annual Fly-In Drive-In brought 69 planes from Wisconsin and Illinois. The HamiltonMount Hope Airport in Ontario was the gathering place for the third annual fly-in of the local branch of the Experimental Aircraft Association-some 15,000 people (in 15 countries) who like to build, or rebuild, their own planes. Economy is, of course, one attraction for the do-it-yourselfers; a two-place plane can be built for about $2,-500 (plus 1,500 hours or so), compared with some $5,500 and up for a factory-built plane. But the main...
...beginning of the summer session starting June 10. One is a girl, Vivian J. Malone, 20, who plans to go to the main university campus at Tuscaloosa. The other is David M. McGlathery, 26, a mathematician who had petitioned for postgraduate study at the university's Huntsville branch. Alabama's Governor George Wallace immediately announced that the Negroes would get into either Tuscaloosa or Huntsville only by walking over his body. Cried he: "I'm going to be wherever any Negro attempts to enter the University of Alabama. I might be in both places at the same...
...Branch of Fisticuffs. Technically, this is a work of belles-lettres, in which Algren appears in the ambiguous role of the anti-intellectual intellectual. The spectacle of a literary man proving that he is hairier than a Rotarian is sadly familiar in the history of American letters, most notably in the person of Ernest Hemingway, who was prone to discuss literature as if it were a branch of fisticuffs. Algren goes the old master one worse by writing about books and boxing as if both were rackets...
Returning to London last week from one of his frequent trips to Brussels, Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto Martelli was grabbed at the airport by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and formally accused of violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. The wording of the charge suggested that he was accused only of preparing to transmit secret information to "an enemy." Britons wondered if they were in for yet another installment in the series of espionage scandals that have been making headlines for nearly 20 years...
...which Conway intended "freedom"--the sense in which it is "the essence of the aristocratic idea"--is the ability "to be yourself." In terms of the undergraduate, this is "the freedom to relate, without restraint, inhibition, or reference to any standard other than excellence and taste, to whatever branch of knowledge will best educate...