Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans won't buy any more Volkswagens when we are in the Bundestag." Though the N.P.D. won only 2% of the vote in the 1965 general election, he grandly predicts that the party will garner 8% to 12% this time. One reason for his confidence is the fact that the party won 7.4% of the vote in state elections in Bavaria in 1966, rose to 9.8% in Baden-Wrüttemberg two years later, and is now represented in seven of Germany's ten state legislatures...
...were ready for a good long vacation. Except for the jolt of the franc's devaluation, they got it. But as the schools reopened, as the Chamber of Deputies resumed business in earnest, as "the season" in Paris began, 50 million Frenchmen were suddenly confronted with the sad fact that, from now on, their country is likely to play in the world a role greatly diminished from the one they had been led to expect. Reports TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer...
...settle for such a passive role plainly grated on Pompidou. Perhaps France could have happiness and honor, gratification and glory? Nowhere did Pompidou express that view more trenchantly than at Ajaccio, Corsica, birthplace of Napoleon. Marking the bicentennial of Napoleon's birth last month, Pompidou pointed out: "In fact, he did not find happiness and, let me add, never bestowed it on France. However, despite the lack of happiness, he attained the pinnacles of grandeur, and endowed France with it to such a point that ever since our people have not resigned themselves to mediocrity and always answered...
...Tangwena had, in fact, precious little to begin with-except their land. Long before the white man came, they lived in the remote hills of Eastern Rhodesia. The boulder-strewn hillside land was good only for sparse crops of maize and yams. In 1930, the colonial government designated the Tangwena hills as "European land," but few settlers were interested. One syndicate, however, set up the Gaeresi Ranch in the area, and the Tangwena's 50 square miles was included within it. Still the land was little used...
...women's education are crumbling because they cen no longer find enough bright applicants willing to endure four years of monastic isolation. After Bennington announced that it was going coed, applications for this year's freshman class rose 56% over last year-despite the fact that the college's tuition had been hiked an average...