Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. In a small, poignant masterwork from Czechoslovakia, Nazi terror eventually poisons the friendship between a warmhearted old Jewess (Ida Kamińska) and a decent Aryan nonentity (Josef KrÓner) whose courage falters under stress...
...main object of both plans is to provide for freshmen informal contacts with upperclassmen in order to gain the sorts of academic and personal advice they cannot get under the present counseling method. By promoting this kind of contact and creating a new rapport the HUC's proposed plan could supplement the current proctor system...
...historical perspective, Epps discerns two main Negro movements in the U.S.: the traditionally radical branch and the conservative faction. The radicals started with the DuBois Clubs and moved to NAACP and its sub-groups which are supported by the Negro intellectuals and leaders, while the Conservatives centered around the Urban League and the National Negro Business League. The Conservatives, Epps says, are the descendants of Booker T. Washington and feel that they must prove themselves worthy before they can enter white society...
...generation Californians in their social announcements. Sometimes this leads to an attempt at creating instant age; at ceremonies marking the opening of its original library building, U.C.L.A. authorities issued a statement that it was hereby declared "traditional" never to step on the seal embedded in the middle of the main hallway. But such exercises in nostalgia or the manufacture of new traditions do not change the fact of rampant change, which evokes a turn-of-the-century observation from the Tascosa (Texas) Pioneer: "Truly this is a world which has no regard for the established order of things, but knocks...
Boeing's main rival, Lockheed, still hopes to turn out a commercial version of its C-5A that might carry upwards of 900 passengers. It could be ready in 1970, one year after Boeing begins its deliveries. But Lockheed's facilities are presently committed to fulfilling the Pentagon order for the military transport jet. Douglas Aircraft has designed a DC-10 that is roughly the equivalent of Boeing's 747. Now that Pan Am has ordered its jumbo jet, competitive U.S. airlines such as TWA and United have little choice but to follow suit...