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...days before a militant union of teaching fellows had played a major role in leading the much-criticized student demonstrators. The Harvard group knew there was no comparable discontent in Cambridge, and they feared that setting up a union with the power to call a strike would frighten away moderate teaching fellows and would guarantee administration and faculty hostility to the organization...
...officials who are critics as well. Describing a box by Richard Artschwaser, Ralph T. Coe of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery wrote: "The cheeselike surface of his formica triptych opens to reveal-absolutely nothing. This work reaches clear into the unlimited recesses of the mind: recesses that could frighten." Sam Hunter, critic and director of Manhattan's Jewish Museum, commented on a work by Barnett Newman, maximum leader of the minimalists; it was a large canvas, all red except for four thread-thin vertical stripes. Wrote Hunter: "These fragile and oscillating stripes play tricks...
...invaded other nearby government buildings and residences, including the home of Congress Party President K. Kamaraj Nadar (he escaped through a back door). Other demonstrators set fire to 56 cars and buses and 26 motor scooters. In desperation, the police broke out rifles, began firing down Parliament Street to frighten away the rioters. In the melee, eight persons were killed, 111 injured...
...biggest big game hunt in its history. Already Uganda has "cropped" 4,000 hippo and nearly 2,000 elephants. Zambia and Rhodesia have hired white hunters to kill as many as 10,000 buffalo and hippo. In Kenya, where authorities at first feared that mass elephant slaughters might frighten the rest of the game out of the reserves, a month-long pilot hunt proved so successful that the government is now taking bids for the killing of thousands of elephants. Its primary stipulation: that the hunters destroy entire family units, leaving no orphans to disturb the survivors...
...countryside, Communists will behead a hamlet chief in order to substitute their own rule and make possible the collection of "taxes" and recruitment of men for the Viet Cong cause. They will cut off the arm of the chief's twelve-year-old daughter in order to frighten the neighboring peasants into silence about their whereabouts...