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Latin America's troublesome students go out on strike at the pop of a firecracker: against the government, for Cuba, to oust professors, or anything else that catches their fancy. Last week, on the eve of final exams, the 18,725 students at Caracas' Central University were on strike for a brand-new reason: the right to flunk forever and still remain in school...
...described her mission as "gingering up the government." That she did. Of the Labor Party she remarked: "During my 25 years in the House of Commons, the Socialists did nothing but promise the Kingdom of God without praying and the good of this world without working." Voting to oust her old friend, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, after Hitler invaded Norway, she explained: "Duds must be got rid of, even if they are one's dearest friends...
...citizens, whom he called "atheistic Unitarians," by distributing monthly patriotic and religious messages to kids in his schools. When Wilson imposed a purely phonetic system of reading, seven school principals resigned, and anti-Wilson teachers, joined by a newly formed citizens' group, agitated for a recall election to oust the trio that had backed the superintendent. In last week's voting, 60% of the district's 10,000 registered voters streamed to the polls and by a surprisingly comfortable margin purged the three conservatives...
...consumer goods versus heavy industry, from becoming ideological weapons with which the opponents could assault each other. Traditionally, the victor has been the advocate of a conservative hard line, the position from which Stalin defeated Trotsky and Khrushchev upset Malenkov. But would a hard-line candidate attempt to oust an opponent by breaking the nuclear test-ban treaty or, ultimately, starting a nuclear war to prove that Communist civilization could be built on the rubble of the old order? It is more likely that, following Khrushchev's example, the hard liner would only talk about...
...total to date: $896 million), last month shipped Indonesia its final 40,000 tons of American rice. Blustered Sukarno: "To hell with aid!" Turning hopefully to Holland, Indonesia last year resumed diplomatic relations, which had been broken in 1960 during Sukarno's noisy, successful cam paign to oust the Dutch from West New Guinea. The trade-minded Dutch, who are more interested in new profits than in salvaging old concessions, were eager to do business again. Last fall the Dutch signed agreements to help merchandise Indonesian rubber, coffee, copra and tea - all of which had piled...