Word: fares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown began when cops tear-gassed and whipped 800 high school students protesting a trolley-fare hike. The brutality brought out the university students next day. Alarmed, the government canceled the fare hike, but 1,000 students grabbed stones, tree limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...curriculum, and the teaching attitudes offer a distinctly Christian tradition. Rabbi Gold maintains, though, that the prevailing faith, not only in American universities, but in Western civilization, is not even Judeo-Christian, but Greco-Christian. How does the Jewish student, with only a poor knowledge of his own faith, fare when he meets such foreign and challenging philosophies for the first time...
This year, though, the varsity didn't fare as well as its freshman counterparts. After an encouraging spring trip, on which it downed a highly-touted Hofsta squad, the varsity tailed off. The squad was winless in Ivy League competition, with a 5-8 overall record...
...round residents, two weekly newspapers, a radio station, and a busy branch of the Bank of America. Even in winter, a parade of chain-clad cars and as many as 30 Greyhound buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers...
...lower fringes of an adequate living standard, while an elite 4.6% of the population has 40% of the national income. Spearheaded by a small but boisterous band of Communists and abetted by students, Bogota's hungry took to the streets in March to protest a bus-fare increase from 1.87? to 3?. For hours, they pelted soldiers with stones and curses...