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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings-and again it was William Fulbright who brought it up. "I have been criticized recently for having cited a story from the New York Times," drawled the Arkansas Senator, adding blandly that "the word which seemed to be so offensive was not of my origin-that Saigon was an American brothel." However, said Fulbright, "I did inquire some-from men who had been there in our aid program-and by and large they confirmed...
...white security forces, led by helicopters, trapped a small band of guerrillas in the hills 85 miles northwest of Salisbury. Seven of the guerrillas were killed. Smith's government charged that they had all crossed the border from Zambia the week before. What ever their point of origin, the significance of the encounter was clear. For the first time since Smith seized inde pendence last November, Rhodesia's blacks were beginning to fight...
...found a name-The Camp Crowd? The Hallucinogeneration?-but they have brattishly proclaimed their principal preoccupations: LSD, pot, the Spirit of Berkeley, californication, and not fighting in Viet Nam. While there are only a few of them, they have begun to produce a noisy literature that confesses its mongrel origin in the cult of hip, the theater of the absurd, the works of Jack Kerouac, the pop art movement and some of the more deplorable traditions of the college humor magazine...
...major overhaul in Biology planned for next year. The Department announced last Fall that it was expanding its concentration requirements and expanding its curriculum at an estimated cost of $150,000. Hopkins said there was no connection between these changes and the tutorial except perhaps a common origin in the "general atmosphere of change and improvement" which seems to be pervading the department...
...anti-Stalinists by proposing that the Soviet Party Presidium be renamed Politburo -a title that won infamy under General Secretary Stalin prior to 1952. But Moscow City Boss Nikolai Egorychev, who proposed a return to the General Secretary label, hastened to point out that both terms were "Leninist" in origin. Egorychev was tapped by his superiors to deliver a lengthy speech explaining the difference between the sins of Stalin and the heroism of the Stalin era, a piece of Soviet doubletalk that left most listeners tranquilized but at least assured them that Stalin was not about to be personally...