Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long after he was posted to Pe king as French cultural counselor in 1964, Marcel Girard met Premier Chou En-lai and told him of an ambitious plan. He would like, said Girard, to put together the first guidebook to China since the Communists took power in 1949-and indeed, since the Japanese railways tried to produce one in 1924. Chou looked at the Frenchman in disbelief, saying only: "I wish you lots of luck...
Married. Stokely Carmichael, 26, Black Power firebrand; and Miriam Makeba, 36, South African singing star, who met Stokely in 1960 during a U.S. tour; he for the first time, she for the third; in Washington...
Patriotic Piety. Case histories explain everything except cases, and genius. White had always written. At first he turned out light, brittle novels (signed "James Aston" to protect his teaching job), then a successful paste-up from his hunting and fishing diaries. His biographer, who never met him, overstates his seeming ease of production; in her portrait, he is an amiable but absent-mirded fowl who every now and then discovers that he has produced an egg. At any rate, in 1938, at the age of 32, White produced The Sword in the Stone, an evocation of "the 12th century...
Groups wishing to support the strike are receiving one delegate on the new Steering Committee for every seventy people the group represents. The new Steering Committee, which met continuously yesterday afternoon and evening, had about 30 members by late last night...
Columbia's Faculty Committee on Instruction, which controls the University's academic structure, met in special session yesterday. Their recommendations were not revealed. However, sources indicated the Committee was considering a proposal to allow all students to receive a "pass" for the term's work. Under this procedure, students would not have to take final exams, and the student body effectively would be dismissed until September...