Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While rumors raced through Paris about De Gaulle's intentions, the old general was setting out to determine the mood of France's military leaders. From a Paris helipad, he flew to the force de frappe's headquarters at Taverny, on the city's northwestern outskirts. There he used the force's secret communications net to sound out senior officers. Then he climbed into the presidential Caravelle and jetted to Baden-Baden, the location of French army headquarters in Germany, for a face-to-face talk with two combat-division commanders...
...Incredible as it may seem, the demands of the Afro-American Student Union at Northwestern University included a request for segregated housing, not, as you report, for desegregated housing. Montgomery, Ala., make room for the Negroes at the back...
...warehouses are sprouting up along the capital's Ozama River, replacing those burned down in the bitter fighting three years ago. More than 80% of the capital's buildings and homes have been repainted in gleaming whites, blues, roses and mustard yellows. In the northwestern suburbs, broad fields have given way to block upon block of middle-and upper-class housing...
...Most of the staff was under 30; many had dropped out of college during the course of the spring semester to become more completely involved in the campaign. We were assigned to Dave's storefront in Barrington. Dave was one of the lucky ones. He had managed to talk Northwestern into granting him a free term to examine the campaign in terms of his anthropology major. Norm, his assistant, was more characteristic. A few months earlier he had been a 5.0 student at the University of Illinois; he was now on pro. Dave only knew two kids that had joined...
More than 200 students at Temple University picketed the inauguration of President Paul R. Anderson after Temple refused to grant tenure to a teacher who had protested grading systems by giving all his students As. At Northwestern, 60 members of the Afro-American Student Union took over the school's main business office, and 15 sympathetic white students occupied the Dean of Students' office to support demands for desegregated housing and more lenient grading for graduates of Negro high schools. Most decisive of all in handling protesters was the University of Denver, a Methodist-affiliated school. When...