Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even to consider this"--one decent act would move all but the most hardened ideologue to reconsider his attitudes. But in the same way, further acts of distrust and rigidity, no matter what principles they embody will only serve to move the most open minded of students into the camp of the ideologues...
Outside Amman, children, aged eight to twelve, from the Baq'aa refugee camp, are trained in commando techniques. They are given rigorous calisthenics and obstacle-course training, taught to handle rifles and machine guns, and instructed where the larynx, heart, liver and intestines are located, the better to thrust a dagger in the right place. Daughters of dead fedayeen are sent to schools run by the "Martyr Family Welfare Service," where they are taught to chant: "I have broken mv chains. I am the daughter of Fatah! We are all commandos." Refugee women are trained in first...
...imprisoned after political show trials. At a poetry reading in London in 1962, he contemptuously called Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's great love and the model for Dr. Zhivago's Lara, a "currency smuggler." Mrs. Ivinskaya was then serving an eight-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp on a trumped-up charge of "speculation." In 1966, when hundreds of distinguished Soviet intellectuals were publicly protesting the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel to eight and five years' hard labor for having allegedly written anti-Soviet works, Evtushenko turned up at an arts festival in Dakar, Senegal. Sipping...
Both Willie Draper, an honorable mention All-American who finished fourth in the NCAA slalom last March, and Alpine star Larry Carter, are recuperating from bouts with mononucleosis. Draper is also suffering from a broken arm, but both he and Carter are expected to attend Harvard's holiday training camp...
After returning from its New Hampshire training camp, the Harvard ski team will sponsor a major racing competition on January 4 for the first time ever. To be known as the Harvard Challenge Cup, this two-run slalom at Loon Mt., N.H., will be the first major U.S. race of 1969 and should attract many of the country's best skiers...