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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Souvanna Phouma a telegram warning of impending disaster. Souvanna, who does not believe in dragons, shrugged it away. Even when the Mekong River started to rise, he attributed it simply to the annual monsoon rains. But the river kept on rising, to a 40-year high, which put the lower sections of the city 'deep under swirling brown water. Suddenly, Parisian education or no, the prince changed his mind: he could be blamed for the disaster unless he followed the dragon's instructions. He called on Kong Le to perform mass atonement ceremonies...
...place was Marchegg, Austria, as 20 falconers from six countries joined in the First International Falconry Meet of Lower Austria. For three days they walked the fields, flying their eagles and hawks. As more than 1,000 fans gathered to watch, the birds brought home a bag of eight hares and rabbits, three partridges and 19 pheasants...
...previously refused to talk to any non-Communist newsman. Within three days, Sulzberger got his interview - a record time for obtaining almost anything in Rumania. Part of the 45-minute chat was even televised. But Sulzberger did not let the privilege intimidate him. In his column Ceausescu got lower marks than he has received from most Western commentators. While granting that the "unabashed nationalist" has shown considerable ingenuity in fending off the Russians, Sulzberger doubted that he will prove to be much of an "ideological innovator," or that he will "deliberately and consciously lead Rumania to Westernization, de-Communization...
...experience of Manhattan's antipoverty Mobilization for Youth program, which three years ago set up a "homework helpers" project that paired high school students as after-hours reading tutors with academically backward grade-school children, most of them Negroes and Puerto Ricans from the city's depressed Lower East Side. Since top students could not always be found as "role models" who might inspire the younger children to greater industry, M.F.Y. was forced to take on a number of tutors who were themselves below average in educational skills...
Humanities 2 is the third biggest course in the College. Its enrollment -- 518 students -- is no less than last year's, even though, under new General Education rules, the lower level Humanities requirement may now be filled by upper level courses...