Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington observer. "But outside these it's pretty much every man for himself." Last week the Afro-Asians cemented themselves once more in the Assembly, by a vote of 82-9 urged Harold Wilson to use force to prevent unilateral Rhodesian independence. But for the most part, the old flogging horse of colonialism is no longer all that exciting-if only because colonialism is nearly dead...
...because they make the bizarre inescapably logical, and any work of art dealing in horror and suspense must try to do the same. Dream-logic is clearly the goal in Repulsion, Roman Polanski's second feature-length film, but a clumsy visual style, dull acting, and a rudimentary script prevent the characters from ever seeming real. We are not afraid because we see through the illusion, and the best one can say of Polanski is that at least he is enough of a magician to keep us from laughing...
Harvard's defense has gives up only 40 points all year, one of the best defensive records in the country. So at least the Crimson should be able to prevent Princeton from rolling up an embarrassingly large score...
...Rockefeller's apparent forthcoming defeat has not yet elicited much open comment. An interesting exception is a letter sent earlier this year to Senator Javits by State Senator John Hughes of Syracuse. Hughes, the senior Republican in the Senate and a conservative, urged Javits to run for Governor to prevent "a defeat for the Republican Party from which it would not soon recover." Hughes certainly would not have written the letter and acknowledged it publicly if he were not convinced that Nelson Rockefeller is going to lose very badly indeed...
...stronghold that leftist rebel partisans still call "sacred revolutionary soil." Shouted curses and a few harmless sniper shots greeted the troops. Most of the city's 500,000 frightened citizens could give thanks that the OAS was acting in the nick of time to prevent the Dominican Republic from plunging into a bloody replay of last April's civil...