Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...components of the Ralph Nader Lone Crusader myth are obviously the offspring of bureaucratic imaginations gone beserk. One element that is genuine, however, is Nader's reputation for putting on a good show. His victims have learned that Nader has an astounding knack of attracting publicity and using the press. He consistently loads his public statements to contain the right mixture of documentation and verbal flamboyance (in the McGovern testimony, for instance, hot dogs with a high fat content became "fatfurters-American's deadliest missiles"). In his increasingly frequent speeches and television appearances. Nader regularly emits the kind of easily...
...Dallas, Ben Thomas of the Associated Press wrote, "Hill saved the day for Dallas with his running." The former Yale fullback was picked first by the Cowboys and was to be used as an end, but was switched just before the season's start to halfback...
This new style of the polities of "total contestation" soon pushed its roots into French soil. In Fall. 1966, members of the Internationale Situationniste, dubbed "les enrages" by the press, shocked France by completely razing the local association of l'UNEF. Influenced more by the Surrealists and Nihilists than Marx or Mao, they succeeded through student indifference in being elected to the direction of l'UNEF. Their first and last official act was to declare the immediate dissolution of the association, burn all its files, and urinate on the crowd passing below the office while singing the International...
...central problem for us to consider is the degree to which the University should supervise the scholarly work of the Faculty." Harvey Brooks. Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics. and chairman of the subcommittee, said yesterday at a press conference...
Dean Ford, who held the press conference with Brooks, said that he is "quite aware of the very strong political and moral feelings" against the Project. But "the difficulty of taking an institutional position against it." he added, "is that it can become a general position of allowing anybody's research to be debarred by a community consensus or even by what may be a small minority...