Word: este
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quick about doing something about it. The Americans? Said one experienced au pair hand last week: "They'll have to learn to get along with one bath a week without shrieks of complaint, mend their own clothes and not throw them away; la vie, after all, n'est pas si facile...
...logjam. After six weeks of didactic debate, fulminating filibuster and mule-headed obstinacy on all sides, a quorum of weary Senators finally compromised, 44-38, on a "sense of Congress" resolution: federal courts are requested to grant a breathing spell to states reapportioning their legislative districts. In the soft est of language, the resolution asks that courts give the states at least one legislative session, plus an additional 30 days, to meet the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote requirements. But the "sense of Congress" really makes very little sense: there is no legal machinery that can compel...
...voice advertised as that of Emile Soumialot, president of the Chinese Communist-backed National Liberation Committee. "I am the new Lumumba," the voice ranted. "Just before he left us, Lumumba let it be known that someone stronger than he would come to complete his work. That man, c'est...
Bounding triumphantly from the grueling examinations that won him his lyceée's coveted bachot, Charles de Gaulle, 15, man general's oldest and favorite grandchild, reported that as his examination code name he had used "L'eétat, c'est moi." Despite dark suspicions that "certain professors are intimidated by my name," he nevertheless flunked Latin, pulled through on the strength of his French and history, which surprised few of his fellow students, among whom he is already famous for his imitations of Grandpa. "I am a Gaullist," he explains, grandly...
...essential power of the corporation is ownership of the university-buildings, endowment, everything fixed and movable that is Yale. L'université, c'est nous," joked former Corporation Member Dean Acheson. The corporation manages all finance and investment, must give recorded approval to each course of study, faculty appointment and degree. In practice, said Acheson, "we don't interfere with the running of the college. This would be the quickest way to louse things up." Instead, the corporation applies itself seriously to its key job, which is to pick the president of the university, and usually ratifies...