Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night negotiations, agreed early Monday morning to huge and highly inflationary wage settlements in order to end the strike that had idled half of France's 16 million-man industrial work force. Then, at plant after plant, the workers rejected the settlements and called for creation of a popular-front government of Socialists and Communists. It was a shattering blow to De Gaulle. He had been operating on the assumption that he could buy off the workers, whose demands until then had been purely economic, and then cope with the rebellious students who had started the crisis...
...want a lasting memento of your exam-time labors, go right ahead and get it. Bluebooks, contrary to popular myth, are not required to rest forever in the bowels of the University, but are available to any student who chases down his instructor and asks...
...Faculty was reported to have chortled loudly last week at the thought of the popular myth that they were forbidden to give back student exams. Dean Ford explained to the meeting that there is no Faculty rule against handing back bluebooks and none of the departments seem to have legislated on this question either...
...Crimson was informed by anonymous phone call that they would not be returned until the lbis flew back to Freedom Square. A full board of the Crimson editors convened that evening and unanimously elected the lbis as president of the newspaper in the absence of the not notably popular Maccoby. John H. Updike '54, president of the Lampoon, set Cambridge on its ear by announcing shortly there after that 'No Crimson editor can rest safe in his bed. We promise in a week to depopulate Cambridge totally of this unfortunate element...
...federation also organized a Social Action Committee, which was directed to draw up position papers on such issues as poverty, the morality of public demonstrations, conscientious objection and the recruitment of Negro priests (of whom there were none at the convention). Other groups will examine the feasibility of popular election of bishops, the liberalization of canon law and, of course, celibacy...