Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Algerian Apartheid. The riots afforded disconcerting proof of the F.L.N.'s hold over France's Algerian population. Since 1947, when they were allowed to enter France freely as full citizens, they have flooded into the country in what French sociologists call "the immigration of hunger." Now 350,000 strong (200,000 in Paris alone), they are a vital segment of the labor force, do most of France's back-breaking labor from road building to stevedoring. They live in slums but earn union-scale wages-dazzling by Arab standards. As a result, they not only support...
...month Manhattan's Rockefeller Center announced one of the biggest non-Government shelter projects, to be sunk beneath the ganglia of Radio City, with an eventual population capacity of 200,000. In Kansas City, the Brunson Instrument Co. recently moved its precision-instrument factory, underground, to a vibration-proof stone quarry. Contracts have been let for a big (cap. 600), elaborate fallout shelter underneath Minneapolis' Federal Reserve Bank, to be equipped with hi-fi music...
...DISAPPOINTMENTS : "The most important is the lack of definite proof that we have made real progress toward achieving peace with justice." And: "One of my greatest disappointments was the defeat of Mr. Nixon. I thought that he was highly qualified to take over the office of the presidency...
...Proof of the effectiveness of this system has been the electoral performance of Cambridge's only municipal political organization, the Civic Association. Although the adoption of many of its programs has helped the city build one of the better and cleaner urban governments in a state where these qualities are not exactly widespread, the CCA has never been able to elect more than four of the nine Councilors. These seats correspond roughly to the influence of the Harvard-Brattle-St.-M.I.T. district and the influence of the rest of Cambridge. Give or take a seat, it is a healthy balance...
Discounting Wednesday's easy 5-0 defeat of Tufts as genuine proof of Crimson strength, Coach Bruce Munro is looking to the season's first Ivy League game to supply the answers. "After Cornell," he said, "I may be ready to climb way out on the end of a limb...