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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hughes supporters feared that other Senatorial candidates might try to keep their candidate off the ballot and thus made special efforts to insure that petitions were properly signed. About 70 to 80 percent of the signatures are being validated...
...London's High Court of Justice sat portly Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian, 66, the orchid in his buttonhole quivering at the slow progress of his suit against BBC. The son of the late oil mogul Calouste ("Mr. Five Percent") Gulbenkian sought to force BBC to turn over a recording of a 1959 interview in which he complained that the administrators of his father's estate were withholding a part of his inheritance. Barely pausing to eat, Gulbenkian lunched daily in a court anteroom on caviar canapes, truffled ham laced with port, cutlets in aspic and glazed duckling, Belgian raspberries...
...Five Percent. No one expected Russians or their satellites to go hungry, or to start a rebellion over the price of pork chops. But there was a deeper, less obvious connection between hunger and history. In the years following World War II, when the Communists marked their greatest gains, their ideological appeal was based on the "revolution of rising expectations." They promised food to the hungry, a better life to all. The great turning point came when ideology had to be replaced by performance. "Communism as an ideology," wrote Milovan Djilas five years ago in The New Class, "has mainly...
...recent article in Time may that reluctance to leave the academic womb is the least of the grad students' motives, but roughly 45 percent of the Class of '61 applied to at least one Harvard graduate school. About of the 472 applications were and 146 men, 24 per cent of all planning immediate graduate were expected to come back to Harvard last fall. It must be admitted that Harvard does have some of the country's best graduate schools, but love must have played a part, in the decisions of the 92 who to the GSAS...
...movement of particles in the radiation belt. Some of them will detour around it and continue on their way. Others, diverted downward, will be caught by the earth's atmosphere. But AEC scientists are certain that the bubble will be too small to affect more than a few percent of the belt's particles. Any major effect on the belt is expected to disappear within a few weeks...