Word: este
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always agree with the administration. On April 21, 1961, the CRIMSON ran a small article on the bottom of its front page, innocently proclaiming "Lingua Latina Mortua Est." Less than one week later, several students gathered in front of Widener to hear an orator proclaim that Harvard should keep Latin diplomas even if the University became "the last light in a darkened world." Within three hours, more than 2000 students had participated in a riot which rivaled the proportions of the famed Pogo riot, complete with tear...
ABOARD THE U.S.S. KEARSARGE, May 16--Maj. I. Gordon Cooper completed his 22-or bit space mission today, despite an electrical failure in his spaceship Faith 7 during the final orbits. Cooper landed in the Pacific at 6:24 1/2 p.m. (EST), only a minute and a half off schedule. By 7:11 he had stopped aboard the flight deck of this rescue ship-carrier...
...about $60 a month, plus room and board and social security benefits, a housewife can hire an inexperienced Spanish girl who speaks no French at all. This language barrier is playing hob with Parisian social life. Many a telephoned invitation gets no farther than "Madame no está. No se. Tarde, tarde." CLICK. And one Spanish maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish...
...Bravo! C'est magnifique!" cheered Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, but it was not for a flawless interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth. In Britain to conduct the London Symphony, the former leader of the San Francisco Symphony took time out to realize a boyhood dream-donning a dandy fireman's hat and watching a ding-dong drill put on by the London Fire Brigade. The maestro loves to boast: "In my home town, Hancock, Maine, I built them a depot and bought an engine, and the population is only 400, so I guess I'm chief...
Hitting the Bank. If cash was the desperate goal of the S.A.O.. two big armed robberies in quick succession fitted neatly into the pattern of violence. Six men broke into the offices of the Société Générale Commerciale de 1'Est on Paris' Quai Anatole-France, forced the president to open the safe, and made off with $80,000 in gold and currency. In Beaune, 170 miles southeast of Paris, thieves looted the safe-deposit boxes of a local bank, getting away with an estimated $2,000,000 in cash...