Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends, but through traditional hard work. However, when he winces at the proposals of increased taxes on his property and income to meet the demands of the unemployed and underemployed, he is variously pegged as racist or materialist. Robin Hood politics creates only dependency and defeatism within the rank and file...
From their balconies and windows high in Warsaw's party headquarters, top-rank Communist officials stared grimly down on Jerusalem Avenue. There, in the March slush, a mob of 10,000 students from Warsaw's two largest universities converged on the grey building, howling slogans, pelting police with bricks and smashing windows with rock-centered snowballs. Across Poland last week, the regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka gazed in alarm upon similar scenes in what became the country's most menacing riots in eleven years...
...Faculty, last year, failed to decide whether the University as an institution should disassociate itself from the Selective Service System by refusing to compute student rank lists. Now that II-S deferments are no longer granted on the basis of an undergraduate's scholastic standing, this issue of University draft "involvement" is gone. But President Johnson's February draft decisions pose a more practical question: Will units of the University help their graduate students to secure legal deferments to keep them out of the army...
...asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with his Arab neighbors to the north. "Look," says Egal, in what must rank among the most candid statements ever made by a government leader, "it has taken us seven years to reach nowhere. Give me three years to get somewhere...
...bath. They are incarcerated in a luxurious villa, where the commandant is a former hotel manager and the guards behave like well-trained batmen. The setup is anything but escape-proof, but there they stay, having a lovely war, unable to agree on a plan because all have identical rank. Private Frigg, escape artist extraordinary, is summoned to spring the goldbricking generals by getting himself captured, and is given a spurious spot promotion that will enable him to give them orders...