Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin American Presidents ever traveled their constituencies quite as thoroughly or as constantly as René Barrientos Ortuño of Bolivia. Barrientos chose this peripatetic presidency, which carried him even into isolated outposts, because he was a man of action; an ex-air-force officer, he infinitely preferred an airplane cockpit to his desk at Quemado Palace...
...cardinals' investiture ceremonies - which included a Solemn Pontifical Mass concelebrated by the Pope and the new members of the Sacred College - Paul announced what may prove to be his most significant piece of news: the appointment of a new Secretary of State. The man that he chose was France's Jean Cardinal Villot, 63. He succeeds the ailing, 86-year-old Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, at one time the apostolic delegate...
...last week, the great majority will grow into normal, healthy children. But 1,600 or so will die before their first birthday-an annual total of 80,000. Anxious to reduce that toll, the Federal Government's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development chose last week-when baby-food manufacturers were celebrating National Baby Week-to stage an Atlantic City seminar with the somber title "Why Babies...
...preserved its power. It chose its power over good sense as well as "academic freedom." What can we men in the middle conclude but that there is substance to the argument of the left that the ultimate question is not one of response of existing institutions to the needs of changed conditions, but is instead one of power, struggle, from which new institutions emerge? Thomas R.B. Wardell...
...held 22 trustees prisoner for 29 hours until the trustees agreed, among other things, to amnesty for their captors. President Buell Gallagher of New York's City College found himself in the familiar dilemma between repression and submission when a couple of hundred students locked the gates. He chose to close the school to its 20,000 students while negotiating with the rebels. Other schools under varying degrees of siege last week included Princeton, Fordham, Tulane, Dartmouth, Howard and Hampton Institute in Virginia...