Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will deliver the third evening lecture in the Career Conference series tonight at 8 p.m. in the Adams House Dining Hall...
...ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
...pretty tune. On trial by Colombia's Senate and charged with using the presidency for personal enrichment was General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 58, deposed in 1957 by a popular revolution. If the Senate decides that Rojas is guilty, it can deprive him of "civil rights," e.g., the right to vote, and it can remand him to the Supreme Court for trial on criminal charges. If the charges stick, Rojas may find himself behind prison bars...
...evenings, while their instructor darned his socks, Hokkaido's students heard uplifting tales of the Civil War. Clark, who ended the war as a colonel with the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers, would tell his awed audience: "At the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on Sept. 1, 1862, I was surrounded by Confederates and was called on to surrender. Bullets whistled overhead; my uniform was torn to pieces. Gentlemen, an American never surrenders. But I managed to retire, and returned to the Union forces unharmed." When the fiery Clark left for Massachusetts, he gave his students a ringing injunction: "Boys, be ambitious...
...counter rising union power, six of the biggest U.S. airlines last fall signed a mutual-aid pact to cut losses suffered during strikes (TIME, Nov. 10). Last week the agreement, first of its kind in U.S. industry, got tentative approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board. The united front, said the CAB, "is not adverse to the public interest," so long as passengers from struck lines are routed to all available airlines, not just to pact members...