Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as a chance to compare views on a bothersome issue. Though they both are striving to keep the Russians at a distance, the two biggest revisionists in the Communist bloc have not been getting along ever since Ceauseşcu declined to support the Arabs in their fight with the Israelis in June. At a gathering in the Kremlin, Tito took aside Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer in a corridor and upbraided him for his refusal to toe the pro-Arab line. He then went home in a fury and canceled an invitation to Ceauseşcu to visit...
...austere party men that their Communist "utopia" is far from classless. In fact, the party press has reported that, proportionately, more middle-level executives are entitled to chauffeur-driven cars in Socialist countries than in the West. Government ministers and factory managers in each of the East European countries fight constantly to enlarge their own pool of cars. They ride in everything from Fiat 600s to Russian Moskvichi, but favor the big and prestigious German Mercedes...
...public trust, public universities are inevitably drawn into state politics. Legislators frequently badger university presidents to get rid of hippies, protesters and Communists. Former University of Missouri President Elmer Ellis recalls that for years he had to fight harder to get money because lawmakers complained about "all those Reds" on his faculty. All he had, argued Ellis, was one lone socialist-but the funds come easier now that the teacher has left to take a $4,500 raise at Wayne State University. Political considerations also kept the University of Massachusetts from putting its new medical school on either its Amherst...
...challengers in '64, is taking a leading hand in behind-the-scenes work to put together the challenges in both states. In Alabama, the likely organizers include former state attorney general Richmond Flowers, who won the lasting love of local Negroes by seeking their votes in his unsuccessful gubernatorial fight against Lurleen Wallace. He will be working closely with leaders of the only state-wide Negro political organization, which is dedicated to supporting the national party...
...ECAC Holiday Festival in New York, Brown best St. Lawrence in a sloppy semifinal, then scared Cornell before falling in the final, 3-2. Last Saturday the two teams met in Ithaca, and once again the Big Red had to fight for a 3-2 decision...