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Radio reporters immediately began broadcasting the news. On the floor of the U.N. conference, a Chilean delegate waved an extra edition of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with the screaming headline NAZIS QUIT. The delegates burst into applause. Cheering crowds gathered in the streets of New York City and Chicago. An hour and a half later, President Truman called in reporters and announced that the story was untrue...
...University of Colorado in Boulder, 450 demonstrators were arrested while attempting to disrupt CIA recruitment interviews. To oppose military research at the University of Minnesota, ten students staged a "kill-in" by opening a canister of fake nerve gas and then collapsing in a heap on the floor of the president's office...
...like many dance students, have suffered through numerous summer dance programs in studios without air conditioning. In pre-professional summer dance classes I have seen teachers temporarily stop class to mop the puddles of sweat off the floor in order to prevent us, the dancers, from injuring ourselves through slipping. While I know that it is indeed possible, although extremely tiring, stifling, and ridiculously sweaty to take dance classes in a hot, humid room, I have never danced in or attended a single summer performance which was not air conditioned...
...birds, pecking at the seed, can lift the wearer away from danger. A third is an elevator which stays in the same place while the skyscraper it serves moves up and down so that “if you’re on the ninety-fifth floor, and a plane hits below you, the building could take you to the ground...
Ongoing. Ceramics presented by the Ceramics Program of the Office of the Arts. Main floor, Hilles Library, 59 Shepard Street. Free...