Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orleans States-Item, which was criticized along with the Times-Picayune for doing little to calm the city during the 1960 school integration crisis, sent a staff reporter to cover last summer's murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, and urged "reasonable Mississippians to raise their voices in a ground swell of indignation." Recently, the States-Item hired a Negro sports columnist. The Houston Chronicle, which has shifted from anti to pro integration, recently editorialized against a proposed state constitutional amendment to preserve discriminatory housing: "We need no laws aimed at Negroes, for that is what this...
Hoping to Lead. In his calm, professorial, yet somehow messianic manner, Frei has gone over all the programs once more during the election campaign. He has held rallies up and down the 2,600-mile length of his country and spoken time after time over radio and TV. Though his Christian Democrats face the vote-splitting opposition of eleven other parties, they are still expected to win 56 to 60 Assembly seats and pick up two Senate seats for a total of eleven...
...most infuriating test of men and boats yet devised. The prevailing northeasterly head winds often hit 40 knots or more. Complicating matters is the mast-snapping pampeiro, a westerly-land wind that frequently howls off the pampas at even greater force-only to die in a sudden, glassy calm. The Brazilian Curfent-the backwash of the Gulf Stream-is supposed to flow southward at two or three knots. But it weaves like a snake and sometimes dies like the wind...
Forward & Backward. Aboard Stormvogel, everything was serene. Radio reports had her well in the lead with only 300 miles to Rio; another 48 hours should see her across the finish line. Then Stormvogel hit a calm. "There were no winds at all during the day," said Helmsman Miles, "and at night the northeaster blew up to 25 or 30 knots. Then there was that current, coming right at us. Two of my fixes actually showed we were going backward...
...present situation, Farnsworth explained, indicates the need for college authorities to "remain calm" in the face of drug problems. "The best thing we can do to protect the student is to help him learn to protect himself," he concluded