Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just to be on the safe side, Adam went ahead and formed his own committee-a team of eight civil rights lawyers who, he said, would help him "press this fight...
...head bowed and a placard tied about his neck. Armed battles between pro-and anti-Maoist factions roiled the streets of Canton, and north of the city, in Kiangsi province, an army of anti-Mao peasants was reported gathering-and daring Mao's Red Guards to come and fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching and other officials, plus the attempted suicides of three other Mao enemies: Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, Economic Planner Po Yi-po, and Supreme People's Court President Yang Hsiu-feng. Marshal Peng...
Fines & Prison Terms. While Los Angeles ponders new strategies in its fight against pollution, other cities-aided by increasing federal technical and financial aid made possible by the Clean Air Act of 1963-have begun to take tentative and sometimes faltering steps in the same direction. To reduce New York City's dirty smog, some 50% of which comes from chimneys, smokestacks and open fires (compared with only 10% of Los Angeles' smog), a regulation has recently been passed to limit the sulphur content of fuel burned within the city. It came none too soon; the U.S. Public...
...added a new department specializing in the philosophy of science, another in mathematical statistics, strengthened Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and Bologna. He pumped more money into the medical school, where the quality and quantity of student admissions were fading; now, 1,200 applicants fight for the 75 openings in each freshman class...
...thirds of the French banking industry dozes along under government ownership, and most private bankers are too timid to fight. The lone tiger is a bald dynamo of 66, Jean Reyre, president and director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. With at least a small stake in almost every big French industry, Reyre's "Paribas" spreads its investments across the world. They range from manganese ore in Gabon and gold in South Africa to factories in India and Russia...