Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blackened and rain began falling straight down, too heavy now to be shifted by the wind. White onlookers retreated from the curbs and onto nearly porches. Most chewed gum, spitting angrily every few minutes. A few tried to laugh, but ridicule didn't work in this weather and most chose silence...
Later yesterday evening, the demonstrators were asked to leave. However, police officials declined to say whether the students would be removed by force if they chose to stay...
...Hanoi, but there is little doubt that Ho Chi Minh and his North Vietnamese aides approved them. As the report summarizes: "The government in Saigon and the Government of the United States both hoped that the danger could be met within South Viet Nam itself. The leaders in Hanoi chose to respond with greater violence. Clearly the restraint of the past was not providing adequately for the defense of South Viet Nam against Hanoi's open aggression...
...American "NTSC" system, so named for the National Television System Committee that chose it for the U.S. in 1953, broadcasts color signals simultaneously, combining them into a composite signal for transmission and separating them again in the receiver. The French "SECAM," which stands for Séquentiel à Mémoire (sequence and memory), transmits colors alternately and meshes them with a memory device in each set (see diagram). The system is made by Compagnie Francaise de Télévision, which is owned fifty-fifty by glassmaking Saint-Gobain and C.S.F., France's largest electronics manufacturer. Germany...
This time Shrout chose the 100-yard freestyle record, which he tied last week against Princeton. His time of 43.1 knocked half a second off the record first set by Bruce Hunter. Almost as impressive was freshman. Stephen Coy, whose second place clocking of 49-2 in the 100-yard freestyle was faster than any varsity time this year. Shrout and Coy led the freshmen to a hard-fought 50-45 victory over Andover...