Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That night Banda toured the city in a friend's car, grumbling all the while that he was "followed everywhere" by cops. At a mass meeting, he exhorted 3,000 wildly cheering fans: "Go to your prisons in your millions, singing Hallelujah." "Kwaca!" he cried to indicate the "dawn" of freedom. "Ufulu!" he roared, his face twitching, and the crowd roared back, "Ufulu! Ufulu! [freedom]." "My brothers and sisters in the hell of Southern Rhodesia," he cried, "I am prepared for anything. Even my ghost, my ashes will fight federation. Are you with me?" When the cries...
...army command, ordering in more reinforcements and warning the civilian population that it intends to bomb out any rebel attempt to hold the central province. Reports of heavy fighting came out of Fomento. near the Sierra del Escambray. The rebels held Sancti Spiritus (pop. 60,000) for a night, drove the army from Caibarién. a north coast sugar port, and closed in on the Las Villas capital of Santa Clara...
...system of fulltime middle schools (corresponding to U.S. high schools) will be abandoned. The majority of students will go directly from grammar schools into factories and farms. Those who want more education may apply for a shortened work day, continue studying in three-year night courses...
...approval of the new plan came from Alexander Nesmeyanov ( TIME Cover, June 2 ), president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In a Literary Gazette article, he observed mildly that interrupting a student's education tended to make him forget what he had learned. Neither was Nesmeyanov enthusiastic about night schools; it would be better, he wrote, if teen-agers studied in the morning, when their heads are clear...
...night raid on the Arnold Arboretum removes its dried plant specimens. Police are baffled, but Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr. says that the culprits will be brought to justice for removal of state's evidence. Dean Bundy has no comment. "What the Dean means to say," his attorney comments, "is no comment...