Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minister and its most compelling public figure (TIME, Dec. 11). Commander of Colombia's small force in the Korean War, he established a reputation as a reformer in uniform after Valencia brought him into the Cabinet in 1962. At the time, the country was plagued by poverty-fed badlands banditry that had been going on unabated for more than a decade. Ruiz Novoa initiated a program of civic action by the army to help peasants improve their lot. He also reorganized Colombia's army into what is today South America's most effective anti-guerrilla force, managed...
...British to make peace, but all he did was force Hitler to denounce him as insane, and land himself in a British jail. Hess was sent to Spandau after being convicted of war crimes at Nürnberg, and over the years rumors of madness cropped up again, fed by his refusal to see visitors. His lawyer, whom he finally summoned last week, said that Hess is sane. He wanted to make his will and be assured that his wife and son have adequate means...
...economy of style, for it shows little, says all. The Maid's bare feet are seen padding over cobbles. Someone in the crowd trips her. At the stake there is a split second of hesitation: then she is chained, the faggots are lit, and her meager belongings are fed to the fire. "Holy Jesus!" calls Joan, and extinction comes as two priests lift a great cross into the thickening smoke, then quickly draw back from a wall of heat...
...Fed Up. The strain tells on the faculties. Florida State's President Gordon Blackwell leaves this month to become president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C., in evident disgust at the lack of scholarly independence. Similarly fed up with "academic frustration," George T. Harrell, dean of the college of medicine at Gainesville, has resigned to become head of the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania...
...little freshman in a Perdoncini school is fitted with earphones into which a bass tone is fed at a volume that would be ear-shattering to a person with normal hearing. At first the sensation means nothing to the student. But he also gets a visual signal; a light flashes on along with the sound, and the teacher gestures with her hand to show that she has heard and seen. The youngster copies her and gestures with his hand to show that he, too, has heard and seen. Soon he learns to recognize the sound alone, and the visual...