Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weeks of language lessons at his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises had equipped De Gaulle with enough Spanish and Portuguese phrases to sprinkle through his speeches, though they did little to correct his heavy French accent. Tucked away in De Gaulle's prodigious memory were the key facts of South American history, geography, economics and politics contained in ten hefty dossiers prepared last winter by France's Latin American embassies...
Seven present or former members of the Harvard Faculty are among a group of over 130 civic, business, religious, and academic leaders who have formed a committee to "expose and correct the activities of the John Birch Society...
Despite this evidence, though, Shinagel is probably correct in maintaining that exposure to the Harvard faculty reinforces well-considered academic inclinations. But this reinforcement does not seem to be as great as the critics suppose...
...although its chairman is Frenchman Pierre-Paul Schweitzer. The IMF has been uniquely successful in spurring orderly growth in world commerce, but it has not been basically changed since its founding at Bretton Woods, N.H., 20 years ago. By posing as the helpful repairman anxious to correct this oversight, Charles de Gaulle hopes to gain more power for France in world monetary circles. Many U.S. financial leaders believe that France wants to transfer some of the IMF's money and credit powers to the Bank for International Settlements, a clubby little band of French and other Continental moneymen...
...incident last July that exploded into five days of Negro rioting in Harlem and Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section. And last week, after taking 1,600 pages of testimony from 45 witnesses, a New York county grand jury decided that Gilligan's account was essentially correct, ruled that he was not criminally liable for James Powell's death...