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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main purpose of allowing international inspection of the Rowe reactor was to pull the Soviet Union into active use of international inspection and control over peaceful fissionable materials. But by week's end, the only Russian word was from Semyon Tsarapkin, chief Soviet disarmament delegate in Geneva, who said: "You know this is a very difficult subject. We are very sensitive about controls." That everyone knew, even in Rowe...
Nigerians want desperately to know how many of which are where. Two weeks ago, "preliminary" results of last fall's census were released, showing an astounding 64% jump, to 55.6 million people. Since the main "increase" came in the politically dominant north, suspicious southerners cried foul. Riots broke out, and more than a thousand students in Ibadan chartered buses and headed for Lagos to demonstrate. They were turned back by steel-helmeted cops with tear...
After each lecture, the Cursillistas divide into smaller groups to discuss its application to their lives, draw pictures that illustrate the sermon's main points. To relieve spiritual tension, the Cursillo schedule provides moments of respite in which the students tell jokes and sing songs, notably a jaunty little Spanish folk tune called De Colores (Of Colors) that has become the unofficial theme of the Cursillo. Sample verse...
...rueful moment, University of California President Clark Kerr once defined his three main headaches as "sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty." Now sex and sport seem simple concerns, compared to parking-for everybody...
Second, Kilson hopes "Negro particularism" will foster political, artistic, and literary expression within the Negro subculture. "The Negroes, like the Jews, want to say something and contribute to the American main-stream...