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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approaching Runway 18 are buffeted by downdrafts over the hills and that the rolling terrain causes a form of optical illusion. Though neither of these complaints figures in warnings to pilots using the field, the crash of Flight 128 will reinforce demands by Ohioans to move Cincinnati's main airport away from Kentucky and into their own state...
...fact is that the major part of the Black Power movement, at least now, is far more moderate than its reputation. In the main, it desires neither to shoot its way out of white America nor to enter a supremacy contest with the white Establishment. Its goals lie within democracy's permissive framework, which has stretched many times before to assimilate minority groups and which, as far as the U.S. Negro is concerned, must stretch again...
...artillery. After warning the Turks to submit or else, he sent three successive patrols through the village. When the third one drew fire, Grivas not only opened up on Ayios Theodoros with his vastly superior firepower but also commanded National Guardsmen to overrun the nearby village of Kophinou, whose main offense had been an attempt to replace its Greek name with a Turkish one. In the ensuing three-hour fight, 24 Turkish Cypriots were killed and nine wounded...
...some time to spare. Pursuing a growing curiosity about the United States, he applied to Harvard's graduate program in government, came here in 1950, and was appointed course assistant to McGeorge Bundy, then an assistant professor and teacher of the college's main undergraduate course in American foreign policy...
...students were perfectly frank as they reported on their discussions. The two points they brought up in connection with the debate on smoking underlined the main concerns with the school of both students and faculty. The first is a concern over the relative quality of students and faculty. The second is a desire to keep the school united, in this case by not separating the smokers from the non-smokers...