Word: civilizations
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...only politician in Brazil able and anxious to make a public speech last week was Arthur da Costa e Silva, President of the republic. In the wake of an army coup the week before that had closed down the Congress, caused widespread arrests and limited civil rights, Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went...
Died. Colonel Segismundo Casado, 75, Spanish Loyalist officer who in the closing days of the Civil War seized Madrid and surrendered the city to Franco in hopes of ending the bloodshed; of a heart attack; in Madrid. One of the few professional officers to march under the Loyalist banner, Casado was nevertheless distrustful of the Communists in Loyalist forces; in 1939, when the Reds vowed to defend Madrid to the death, he turned on his former allies and imprisoned their leaders, thus effectively ending the battle...
Southern black colleges have never drawn significant financial support from local whites, Tougaloo least of all as a result of its long and honorable history as a hotbed of civil rights activity. "The police in Jackson have often referred to our students as 'them smart niggers from Tougaloo,' " says Owens, and only two years before he took over the presidency, there was a serious effort in the Mississippi legislature to revoke Tougaloo's charter "in the public interest." Owens has no intention of caving in. Says he: "We could do it the other .way, give...
...Pacific-to Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the islands in between. No major Pacific routes have been awarded by the U.S. Government since 1946, and airline executives have been lobbying long and hard to get more. The first leg of the air race ended last spring, when a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner recommended that the international business be divided up among five carriers. The final decision was up to the White House, which last week finally put an end to the marathon...
...network presidents-Dr. Frank Stanton of CBS, Julian Goodman of NBC and Leonard Goldenson of ABC all defended TV, particularly TV newsmen, against charges that they dwell excessively on violence in accounts of civil disorders and the Viet...