Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fainsod Committee had as its initial claim to fame that it was the midwife at the birth of the Committee of Fifteen. It set up the ground rules and conducted the elections for that Committee...
...death in September. Thang's accession to the presidency confirmed that none of the four real rivals for Ho's mantle - Premier Pham Van Dong, Party Boss Le Duan, National Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap - are yet strong enough to claim it for themselves...
...whole problem may become academic before long. Returning from vacation this week, the judges will take up the last case that is currently before the court - a Belgian company's compensation claim for a hydroelectric dam confiscated by the Spanish government in 1948. After that, the judges could theoretically pack up and return to their favorite resorts. Few nations are yet willing to submit their quarrels to an international authority, and the World Court will soon have no further business on its agenda...
Jean-Paul Sartre has said that Negro poetry is "the true revolutionary poetry" of the time, something that transcends race alone. Richard Wright, the father of the black novel, laid claim to "a right more immediately deep er than that of politics or race . . . .that is, a human right, the right of a man to think and feel honestly." In Chicago, a mural on a ghetto wall glowers and glows at passersby in pride and in challenge. Or, hear Owen Dodson...
...quite. The bulky box labeled Vasarely Planetary Folklore Participation No. 1 costs $500. For that, the customer receives 390 colored, magnetized plastic pieces to be arranged at will within a 20-in. by 20-in. frame -plus the added attraction of hanging a work of art he can claim, truthfully enough, to have put together himself...