Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such projects generate an immense -and justified-pride. "We've been treated unfairly," says Indianapolis' Mattie Coney, "but fairness isn't the argument. Black people are easily identified-they just plain have to be better behaved or they give the prejudiced white man a weapon." In a letter made public last
...unit. The lower and upper classmen must attend three consecutive trimesters - but in the middle two years students need be on the campus for only two terms. They can choose from among some 30 combinations of classes and off-campus independent study, full-time work, foreign study or just plain vacation. A student can, in fact, arrange to ignore formal classwork and the campus for a full year, yet graduate on time. Professors, too, can get a full year off, with full pay, by teaching for three terms in a row. Most students and faculty seem eager...
...ranging from coffee to cassis. The flavored varieties are a favorite with children and with busy housewives hurrying through lunch. Even recalcitrant husbands are catching on. "They used to think that eating yogurt was somehow humiliating," says a Danone executive. "Now they are eating more and more. By having plain yogurt and not the flavored kind, they maintain their dignity...
...candidly. The M.P.s debating the homosexuality and abortion bills at times became so detailed and clinical in their discussion that Lord Boothby, though a supporter of both bills, was moved to predict: "We shall not hear of sex in this house again for a very long time, because the plain truth is that after a while, sex can be very boring...
...becoming more cautious about their involvement with the Arabs. They gave a bear hug to Algeria's Houari Boumediene when he visited Moscow last week-but little else. They were aware that Boumediene is trying to stake a claim to leadership of the Arab left, but they made plain that Nasser is still their No. 1 man in the Middle East; after all, they have already replaced 200 of his 350 destroyed planes. Boumediene went to Moscow straight from Cairo, where five of the more militant and left-leaning Arab chiefs rattled threats against Israel, called for a "second...