Word: preps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week of rioting and sporadic shootings, the toll reached at least eight and possibly 18 dead, with perhaps a hundred wounded on both sides, and more than 2,000 arrested. It was a heavy cost for what began as a minor spat between the granaderos, or riot police, and prep-school students affiliated with the 90,000-student National University. As the scrap spilled into the streets, the students directed their anger toward the traditionally revered personage of Mexico's President, and seized the chance of disrupting the upcoming Olympics (see SPORT) as a historic opportunity for official embarrassment...
Harvard's varsity soccer team dismembered a pathetic M.I.T. squad, 10-0, yesterday afternoon in a prep for Saturday's game with a tough Boston University eleven...
...offense, however, bubbles with strong shooters and quick wings. Charlie Thomas, a center forward from Gambia who scored 27 goals in prep school last year and logged 20 assists, will lead the Crimson attack. At inside he can expect more than adequate support in Phil Kydes, Chris Alexoupolis, Skip Marotta, or maybe Bill Bennett...
Four Demands. It was the second time the government had given its student rebels a cause. The riots started in July, when city granaderos, or riot cops, quelled a fight among prep-school boys and briefly occupied one of the school buildings. When the students protested, paratroopers moved in with tanks, armored cars and bazookas. They temporarily stopped the riots, but at the price of turning most of Mexico's students against them...
...then, Sheed was enrolled in Downside, a Benedictine prep school in England somewhat resembling Sopworth in The Blacking Factory. Eventually, he took a degree in history at Oxford, spent a year with his father's relatives in Sydney, Australia ("more eccentricity per square foot than anywhere"), and settled in Greenwich Village as a writer. His first novel, A Middle Class Education (1961), earned him a small reputation that has grown slowly but steadily. Last year his fourth novel, Office Politics, was nominated for a National Book Award. Now, at 37, he is justly rated as one of the nation...