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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia's objections. Says Factory Director Frantisek Nedomlel: "We are hurrying its organization along as quickly as possible so that we will have it fully in operation before we get any direct orders to abandon it." In a letter published by the trade-union newspaper Prace, moreover, a group of factory workers threatened a general strike if Russia attempted to sack Reformer Smrkovsky...
Last week, just before the issue came to a vote, Alves rose to implore his colleagues to refuse "to turn over to a small group of extremists the cleaver for their beheading." One by one the 369 assembled Congressmen left their seats in Brasilia's modern Chamber of Deputies to deliver the ballots. When the count was in, the government had suffered a stunning defeat. Nearly 100 of Costa e Silva's followers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition. By a margin of 216 to 141, the deputies quashed the government's motion to lift...
...half of the national income range has three times the chance to get a college education as one whose family is in the bottom half." The commission's figures show that while 19 out of 20 of the brightest students in the top 25% income group get to college, only 10 out of 20 of the promising students in the lowest 25% income group get there. "The proportion of Negroes in the American college population," the report notes, "is less than half the proportion of Negroes in the population as a whole...
...High School, where there are only three whites in a student body of 2,400. Gregory Taylor, now a senior, resented his classification as a "basic" student (meaning that he was destined for manual labor), and he was uninterested in what he considered an irrelevant curriculum. Taylor organized a group called the "Modern Strivers." With the help of George Rhodes, Washington's assistant superintendent for secondary schools, the Strivers worked out a written proposal for their own freedom school.* They raised funds, got the loan of two floors in a church-owned building and a promise of volunteer...
Stretched Time. The psychological tests produced other interesting, but still inconsistent results. The men's performance was unaffected in a test that demands signaling when a particular letter appears in a group of letters flashed on a screen. Another test, in which numbered arithmetical symbols must be put in correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result. The marijuana novices did poorly on this for as long as H hours after smoking, but the habitual users improved their ordinary performance when under pot. A similar discrepancy appeared in a test requiring the subject to keep a stylus on a moving spot...