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During the last exam period, only 67 of the 137 enrolled in French Ca passed the college language requirement with the required 560 on the placement test. In French Ra, 31 of 142 surpassed 560. Last year 60 of 130 in Ca and 50 in 185 in Ra passed, indicating that University language courses may be diverging further from the placement test contents...
...experts smiled skeptically two years ago when a U.N. economist. Argentine-born Raúl Prebisch, got six Latin American nations to talking about forming a common market. That kind of thing was all right for a well-developed Europe, they said, but backward Latin nations were too accustomed to protecting national industries with high tariff walls. And since a major slice of every government's revenue came from import and export duties, they could hardly be expected to agree on mutual tariff cutbacks. But last week seven Latin nations * brought their common market to life by simultaneously cutting...
...awhile last week, the elegant grey squares looked and sounded more like Algiers than the ordered heart of France. Jostling into the Place de la Concorde, the Etoile, the Place de 1'Opéra, the Champs Elysées, and half a dozen other Paris landmarks, tens of thousands of Algerians came swarming from slums and shantytowns to protest a new 8:30 p.m. curfew that applies only to Moslems...
...Will Bury." Cubans were prepared to believe the underground. Since taking power, Castro has worked tirelessly to mold his nation's youth into loyal-and militant-Communist cadres. Reading primers assure that the first name youngsters learn to spell is Fidel or Raúl, that their first animal stories are set on collective farms, that their first bogeymen are Yanqui imperialists. With piping voices, Cuba's fourth-graders sing a jingle taught by their energetic teachers...
Ravel's opera was a critical success but a popular failure at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1926 (the love duet of the cats, with its mewing violins, enraged the audience). Nevertheless, L'Enfant contains some of Ravel's most appealing music, as a fine new Deutsche Gramophon recording conducted by Lorin Maazel-the first of the opera in stereo-again demonstrates...