Word: noncomics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a strong supporter of pan-Arabism, is even seen by some as a potential rival of his onetime benefactor, Nasser. Ben Bella, in his speeches, chants: "We are Arabs, we are Arabs, we are Arabs." His supporters claim that the ex-country boy, the ex-terrorist, the ex-noncom, the ex-prisoner is most interested in helping Algeria's fellahin. Just how to do it, Ben Bella has obviously not yet figured...
France's De Gaulle sent a delegation headed by his trusted Algerian Affairs Minister, Louis Joxe. The F.L.N. delegation was headed by Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, a former French army noncom. As the delegates met in Evian's cream-colored Hotel du Pare, they had only to look out the window for evidence that Salan's S.A.O.* was still desperately trying to sabotage peace. French security forces prowled the town, armed motorboats guarded the water approaches over Lake Geneva, army halftracks along the esplanade pointed the snouts of antiaircraft guns skyward. In Paris, the S.A.O. struck massively...
...Level. Melbourne High spurns "life adjustment" courses for its 1,500 students. It has no social studies. "They only weaken history and geography," says Brown. The school assembly is a noncom-pulsory, after-hours activity. Melbourne makes profitable use of team teaching, follows the bold "Trump Plan" schedule of large lecture classes 20% of the time, with the rest divided between seminars and individual research. Students even buy many textbooks because "state-provided textbooks are not adequate...
...tightly knit settlement of 15,000 U.S. citizens-mainly Air Force dependents with a sprinkling of Army folk-stands on a wooded hilltop above the baroque German city of Wiesbaden (pop. 250,000) at a bend of the Rhine River. In this slumless paradise, each officer's or noncom's family is assigned a completely furnished, one-to five-bedroom apartment in buildings erected for them by the West German government. Some 600 bachelor officers and civilians are housed downtown in the rambling American Arms Hotel. Nearly 400 single girls take their ease...
Everyone Rises. The Shah's father, known to his subjects as Reza Shah, was an old-style, absolute monarch who rose from noncom to colonel to King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms. A wiry, hot-tempered martinet, the old Shah set out to manhandle Iran into the mod ern world, and he did not mind machine-gunning obstreperous peasants to do it. He abolished the veil, and when a Moslem imam criticized the Queen for not wearing one, roared up to the mosque in a convoy of armored cars...