Word: build
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...power. Neither of the two major parties won an outright majority. The long dominant Christian Democrats, who had promised "no experiments," remained the largest par ty, with 15.2 million votes or 46.1% of the total?a 1.5% decline from the last election in 1965. The Socialists, who pledged to "Build the Modern Germany," won 14 million votes, increasing their 1965 percentage by 3.4% and capturing 42.7% of the electorate. Ironically, the party that ended up holding the balance of power was the one that had lost the most: the Free Democrats, an unlikely assortment of conservative and far-left liberals...
...there is not even a Correct Line on your attitude to New York City. Jon Maslow's "Dylan Piece," a reprint from Avatar, tells us how great Dylan is, partly in Dylan's own words. Maslow also contributes "The Tower," an allegorical story about a tower which the people build and then destroy...
During last April's crisis, the Design School group called upon the University to build 3000 new housing units in Cambridge. Two weeks ago, Harvard announced plans to construct 389 housing units exclusively for the use of non-Harvard residents of Cambridge. Plans for another 600 to 700 units-most of which will probably be for Harvard personnel-are currently being developed...
...living in a perceptual and moral world of her own, to judge from her description of last week's attack on the Center for International Affairs, and upon its occupants. The invaders, she writes. who "beat up someone," carried out "an attack on the attempts of SDS to build a strong movement that fights racism and Imperialism...
These views give a grossly distorted impression. The attack, as all those of us present in the building can attest, did not simply or accidentally "beat up someone" ; it was built upon violence, its reason was violence, and it struck widely, capriciously, and cruelly. This invasion should not be dignified as a political act, nor dismissed as a tactical error, but considered a set of serious crimes against innocent people, best handled by University discipline and by the public police and courts. Miss Harvey will have to separate morality and tactics rather more clearly if she is to build...