Word: majority
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...continually brave beatings, labor camps and exile by publicly opposing the policies of the regime, the most unlikely rebel is a truculent bear of a man named Pyotr Grigorenko. The demonstrators are typically youthful intellectuals; Grigorenko is a limping elder of 63 who until five years ago held a major general's commission in the Red Army and before that taught cybernetics at the elite Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Others may wear a beard as an ensign of protest. The clean-shaven Grigorenko's emblem is a cane that he carries because of war wounds. With...
Despite its grimy setting in Harlem, C.C.N.Y. has been a major force in shaping U.S. intellectual life. Created in 1847 by a referendum of the city's people, the college at once set high admission standards and offered free education to thousands of immigrants' children who survived the grinding competition. A kind of proletarian Harvard, it produced a long list of financiers, writers and scientists, including Bernard Baruch, Felix Frankfurter, Upton Sinclair, Lewis Mumford and Jonas Salk. As the flagship campus of the 15-college City University of New York, it now has 20,000 students...
...major event in the grim routine of the leprosarium at Nyamsong in Cameroon is a visit by a tall, burly priest in a limp white cassock. As he approaches the swampy hamlet, with its hospital, schools and workshops, the lepers come out of their huts to greet him: in wheelchairs, on crutches, on their knees. Some have only stumps in place of hands and feet; others are completely covered with ugly open sores. Smiling gravely, the priest greets them all, clasping some to his breast, kissing others, lifting the children high in the air until they giggle with delight. Thus...
That is unlikely. In comparison with most other major currencies, the mark remains undervalued by about 8% to 10%; the disparity between it and the French franc may be as much as 15% or 20%. Speculation in marks may subside for a while, as happened after the Germans refused to revalue last November. But as before, it will probably resume after a few months. Until the mark moves up and the franc moves down, closer to their real value, financial markets will remain unsettled...
Last week Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander, a major supporter of Nordek, met at his country estate with President Urho Kekkonen and Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto of Finland. Their decision-to push ahead with the year-old negotiations to bring Nordek into being-reflected a realization that, despite Charles de Gaulle's departure, Europe is far from becoming one grand market...