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...distinctions and differentiations in seeking to reach a satisfactory balance of demands. The wheels of bureaucracy move with excruciating tardiness, and this bureaucracy could not move fast enough to satisfy one segment of SDS. Although the group as a whole had voted to take no such action, a fraction of those in attendance at a SDS meeting on April 8, 1969, decided to occupy a building the next day. Shortly before noon on April 10, they did so, ejecting the deans in University Hall, and renaming the building "Che Guevara Hall". The crowds of students who gathered outside overwhelmingly opposed...
Brokers on the Paris Bourse had never seen anything like it. At least not over something so mundane as a disposable ballpoint pen. Last month, when Baron Marcel Bich sold a fraction of his pen company's 1,500,000 shares to the French public, investors went into a frenzy over Société Bic. On opening day there were offers for 8,000,000 shares, but only 300,000 were made available; the price promptly jumped from $176 to $208. Helped by that rise, Baron Bich's holdings in the company that he controls increased...
...that López Rodó's planners had not counted on. The country is counting the cost of rapid urbanization. Hopeful peasants are forsaking such dirt-poor regions as Andalusia or Estremadura for the industrial cities, where there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa del Sol is referred to sarcastically as "Miami Beach East...
...CITY'S REPORT on the arrest and jail cell death of East Cambridge youth Lawrence P. Largey addresses itself to hardly a fraction of the issues involves. While the report may have provided shocking revelations for some, its conclusions or "findings of fact" are often weak and its recommendations inspecific...
...what Winner Brandt called "a new self-confidence." More of them voted than ever-91.2% of those eligible, v. 55% in the U.S. election-and they split their preferences more than ever before. The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, as well as the far-left parties, got only a fraction of 1% of the vote. As Novelist Günter Grass, who campaigned for Brandt, put it, the election proved that Germans had overcome the scars of the Nazi past, which made them afraid to identify too closely with any political party, and showed that they understand democracy...