Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late afternoon when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his lady drove into the neatly trimmed country estate outside Paris. There the Charles de Gaulles awaited their weekend guests on the steps of the Château de Champs, the magnificently paneled onetime home of Madame Pompadour. It has become Macmillan's custom to make contact with France's haughty leader at least once a year. But this time it was especially important for the two statesmen to have their leisurely hours together in the French countryside, for Europe is moving into decisive times; bargains made, friendships hardened, grievances...
...path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux, and a few thousand choice acres of European soil...
...politics, Ch'ang feels that "American university students are ignorant in the extreme." The reason for this is that "the United States is a country full of secret agents. Political persecution is perpetrated in an endless stream." Ch'ang tells his readers that "whoever utters the slightest sound of discontent is immediately suspected as a communist...His fate is thus sealed...
...dearth" of teachers is a strong factor behind these low standards, Ch'ang decides. "Any work is better than teaching; naturally they (college professors) have no heart for teaching." This lack of desire results from "very low salaries." Many teachers are forced to become "walters, to toil as farm hands, or to act as circus clowns...
...view of these numerous abuses, Ch'ang mildly concludes that "American educational enterprises are rotting...