Word: main
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students deliberately revived battle cries of historic French revolutionists. "A has les ordonnances [Down with decrees]," proclaimed posters on the Sorbonne's two main doors. The message gibed at the De Gaulle government's minor resort to government by decree last year, but the phrase echoed the slogan of the insurrection that toppled King Charles X from the French throne in 1830, after he issued four suppressive decrees. Taking the name from the general assembly that led to the French Revolution of 1789, students summoned an "estates general" of students and professors to meet in Paris this week...
...Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis, one of Britain's Outer Hebrides islands, who accidentally swallowed enough weed killer to damage one of his lungs critically. The donor: Anne Main, an 18-year-old Edinburgh bank teller who died as a result of an overdose of aspirin-like painkiller. Tight-lipped in reaction to the press publicity that followed Dr. Donald N. Ross's London heart transplant two weeks ago, Logan and his colleagues would say nothing more than...
...spite of such drawbacks, more and more women are going to work. Money is the main motive, but a job also fulfills emotional needs and helps women get rid of their tensions. The result, observers generally agree, is a happier home life-as long as the wife does not make more money than her husband. Says Mrs. Nilza de Vasconcellos, 48, sales manager for a textile factory in Rio de Janeiro: "A woman with a career can talk with her husband, instead of just listening to him. A dialogue is always better than a monologue, and an excellent introduction...
Rogers Albritton, professor of Philosophy, introduced the resolution and Handlin was the main speaker against it. Both are SFAC members. They presented a series of arguments that had surfaced in the Advisory Council's two-month discussion of recruitment...
...commerce from border taxes to sanitary regulations. Also high on GATT's agenda are measures to encourage trade between developed and underdeveloped nations by means of special concessions. Long foresees a period ahead in which the problems of poorer countries will be "of paramount importance," and his main job will be to help stop the widening prosperity...