Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet may be even less important under Pompidou than it was under De Gaulle. For although the imperious general ruled France, in many areas he failed to govern it. Many of the details of his policies and much of the routine administration did not interest him, and he left such matters to his ministers. That is not likely to be true of Pompidou, who is a superb administrator and has already told his inner circle that he intends to govern as well as rule...
...purple-hued Tien Shan mountain range. Rising majestically to heights of almost 25,000 feet, the permanently snowcapped peaks separate Soviet Kazakhstan from the Chinese region of Sinkiang. One main pass through the Tien Shan range is called the Dzungarian Gates, named after the Dsongars who formed the left flank of the Mongolian army of old. Historically the Gates have been the passageway for Mid-Asian traffic between Russia and China. Last week the two Communist giants reported that their troops had engaged in an armed clash at the Dzungarian Gates-the latest, and potentially most dangerous, of a series...
Filling the ranks has become increasingly difficult. Spurred by West Germany's noisy left, the number of applications for exemption by conscientious objectors has risen from 6,000 in 1967 to 11,800 last year-and 81% of the exemptions were granted. West Berlin, where residents are draft-exempt, is increasingly used as an asylum for young men who want to avoid military service. They stay there as students or workers until they pass draft age. In recent weeks, three Bundeswehr officers-two of whom held sensitive positions-have defected to East Germany. There is an increase of minor...
Mothers are apt to catch it from them, like the common cold, through nose and mouth. It builds up to epidemic pro portions every five to seven years. The last U.S. epidemic, in 1964, caused 15,000 to 20,000 spontaneous abortions and stillbirths. It left an equal number of children with incurable and for the most part uncorrectable defects, from blindness and total deafness to imbecility. Its ravages in the U.S. alone were more terrible than the worldwide effects of the more highly publicized thalidomide disaster, which left 8,000 chil dren deformed. Epidemiologists feared that the next round...
...Boulez possesses a blazing aphoristic gift for denouncing all those who do not agree with him. On everyone who writes opera today: "Since Wozzeck and Lulu, no opera worth discussing has been composed." On the Paris Opera: "Full of dust and dung." On the French musical community, which he left in 1959 to settle in Germany: "There is more stupidity there than anywhere else." On the verbiage of conductors who talk too much: "Sheer hocus-pocus...