Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quemado Palace, Bolivia's presidential seat, has one entrance marked "RB" for Republica de Bolivia. Nowadays wits in La Paz insist that the initials actually stand for Rene Barrientos, the present occupant. The onetime air force commander was elected three years ago, following the coup that toppled Victor Paz Estenssoro. At the time, Bolivians predicted that he was politically too naive to survive longer than six months. With only a year to go before Barrientos completes a full term, even critics now admit that the handsome, mercurial chief executive has put his stamp on the country as have...
...Psyche Bag. Dulin warmed up for his present job as a physical education instructor at St. Mary's High School in tiny, all-white West Point, Iowa. It was the only job offered to him after he graduated from St. Joseph's College in his home state of Indiana. A bachelor when he arrived in West Point, Dulin soon married, had three children and moved down the road to Fort Madison, a town with 300 blacks. There he quickly became president of the local chapter of the NAACP. The folks in West Point still remember the day when...
...swim naked in the pool? Students at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn-a ghetto school suffering from all the usual sociological ills-demanded such reforms recently and got them, as the New York Times reported last week. In fact, Dr. Leonard Gelber, the principal, credits much of the present calm at Bushwick to a "human relations" committee of students, teachers and administrators that he established last spring as a sounding board for student demands. The very fact that those demands were given serious consideration, let alone granted, seems to have kept Bushwick cool. For the present, at least...
...sponsor, Xerox, is inserting only two commercials into the 2½-hour play. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which Hall helped turn into Britain's most distinguished repertory company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together on an austere, black-and-white film of King Lear. On Sunday night alone, Hall estimates, the TV audience for A Midsummer Night's Dream will be large enough to fill...
...Faculty-adopted SFAC resolution requests the Corporation to terminate the Faculty appointments of the present instructors of ROTC courses "as soon as possible after the end of the current academic year...