Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past decade. One shrewd but practical way of accomplishing this was to require penitents to teach illiterates how to read and write as penance for their sins. In Panama, a popular American priest, Father Leo Mahon, has successfully combined Peace Corps techniques with preaching to help convert a slum named San Miguelito into a neat and hygienic community. The church in Ecuador is distributing 120,000 acres of its own land to peasants...
Barrientos tried to be understanding about the defection of his friend and chief assistant: "He claimed to be a Marxist, and I tried to convert that into Bolivian nationalism." Though he flew off to London at week's end-the Argentines and the Peruvians had refused him a visa-Arguedas professed a willingness to return to Bolivia and "confront the responsibilities inherent in the deed that I committed." Barrientos at first considered his favorite resort in times of stress: a flight into the hinterlands to talk with the Indian campesinos, who provide much of his popular support...
...clashes began after 500 leftist students announced their plans to occupy an unused downtown department store, which they hoped to convert into a with-it club for evenings of pop music and hippie happenings. Conservative city fathers decided that the heart of Zurich's hallowed banking section, from which the city's famous Gnomes conduct their mysterious business, was no place for such a frivolous establishment. The students arrived to find the department store ringed with police...
...offer was a good one. ABC, third-ranking network in U.S. television, desperately needs money to convert completely to color and upgrade its programming; of the three major TV systems it was the only one that lost money last year on network operations. ABC's president, Leonard H. Goldenson, thought he had the wherewithal last year, when ITT agreed to buy the network. But the Justice Department entered objections, stalled the deal to the point that ITT Chairman Harold S. Geneen finally backed out because the value of ITT stock had gone up so much in the meantime that...
...Gaullist Government will have to deal, are of special interest to American students. On the surface, their complaints are similar. At both Columbia and the Sorbonne, demonstrators demanded curriculums more consonant with the times, a larger role in university affairs, and the demolition of those invisible walls that convert a university into an academic hermitage. But more than an ocean and a language separate the French university student and his counterpart in the U.S. The two can hardly be measured on the same scale. French higher education, reports TIME Correspondent Judson Gooding, is an ordeal of body and spirit that...