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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orders with Kick. To reach Aba, federal forces had to cross the swift cur rents of the Imo River, which the Bi-afrans had established as the major defense line protecting Aba by the simple expedient of blowing up the main bridges. They had left just one bridge intact-at Awaza-and it was heavily mined. When federal marine comman dos stepped onto the bridge, it, too, exploded and vanished. The blast, however, failed to stop federal soldiers from running across the catwalk on top of a natural-gas pipeline that spanned the river parallel to the bridge...
...microscope and decided that it was tiny spikes at the base of their delicate, fernlike antennae that reacted to strong light. To check his theory, he blacked out the moths' eyes, painted each antenna black, except for the tips of the spikes, and ran minuscule wires into the main antennal nerves. Then he began subjecting them to light of varying intensity...
Wildly diverse in its membership and vague in its aims, the National Student Association is a loose affiliation of 368 student governments that has never held any real power on U.S. college campuses. Its main accomplishment has been to act as sounding board for the whole spectrum of student complaints. Its annual congress in Manhattan, Kans., last week served the same purpose. And the decibel count at the meeting signaled the almost certain approach of another year of collegiate unrest and uproar...
...successfully to remove an admissions ban on Negro students from the trust agreement under which the university was founded, and he ordered racial integration of the off-campus faculty club. He was easily accessible to student leaders and appointed students to academic committees. To antiwar activists, Pitzer's main drawback may be his 2½ years (1949 to 1951) as a weapons-oriented director of research for the AEC and his current service on the board of the Rand Corp...
...French Minister of Agriculture Robert Boulin puts it, "we are entering into an era of general overproduction." There has been conversation about giving away food surpluses to needy countries. Still, all this has been more talk than action. Meanwhile, the problem of agricultural surpluses is one of the main subjects to be discussed at a Common Market meeting next month...