Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vosjoli's friend Leon Uris, has been on book counters for months in the bestseller Topaz. U.S. diplomats braced for a Gallic storm over it, but none materialized-perhaps because Topaz was not published in France. As of last week, all that the average Frenchman had read of the affair was some chatty, rather unalarmed accounts in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine and a few other papers. Despite the Elysee Palace's determination to live above the tempest, it may not be able to maintain that altitude...
...West Germany's 282,000 students, who had joined them in countless nonviolent protests in recent months, wanted to back out when physical violence, to others and to themselves, became the rule. In fact, in Munich, where the two riot deaths occurred, moderate students, carrying banners that read STONES ARE NO ARGUMENTS, demonstrated against the Socialist German Student League, which had stirred up the violence. Confronted with failure on all fronts, the radicals, who constitute a well-organized 10% of the West German student body, withdrew to plot a new approach...
...before the Dutschke incident, the most popular lapel buttons among radical students was Enteignet Springer-Dispossess Springer. In response to the wide-scale attacks against Springer's plants, Bild Am Sonntag, his big Sunday paper, vowed: "No terror will bend us." His readers seemed to like what they read. Despite all the efforts of radical students to stop the distribution of his papers, they enjoyed last week the best sales in their history...
...Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...
...DOING the reading till the end also means that the course paper is done with a very sketchy understanding of what the course is all about. This forces most courses to allow almost complete freedom in the choice of paper topic--and often people write papers that they might have written without having taken the course at all. In short, anybody who does not read throughout the year loses much of the educational benefit of the lecture system...