Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commandant of Los Angeles' Black-Foxe Military Institute wanted to remind his cadets to study during Christmas vacation, and he knew just how to contact them: he took an ad in Hot Rod magazine. More than 80% of the student body read the message. Whether they turned back to their schoolbooks is another question. After all, Hot Rod is something of a technical journal; reading it requires quite a bit of a guy's time. And because so many readers are anxious to give it their time, Robert Petersen has cannily capitalized on the pattern of its success...
...Although my advanced age (29) might preclude rational discussion with members of the Class of 1966, I would remind them that few if any Americans have been enthusiastic about the prospect of military service. It is, as it was, an experience unmatched in monotony, unequaled in frustration, unsurpassed in futility-but unavoidable if peace and freedom are to be maintained. If the world is full of contradictions, it is also full of opportunities and hope, and it is a challenge to graduates individually to correct the one by pursuing the other...
...their efforts to convince the Administration to keep the country out of war, the pacifists used many of the techniques that are being used by anti-war groups. A petition sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in May of 1940, remind him "to bend his efforts toward securing peace and not war for America." More than 300 students signed the petition and sent with it a naval artillery shell, World War I vintage, for the President to use as a paper weight. The signers vowed "never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students...
Leopoldville was named after a Belgian king, Elisabethville after a Belgian queen, and Stanleyville after the American journalist who presumed it was Dr. Livingstone. Such names could only remind the Congolese of their colonial past and so, when independence came, it was just a matter of time before they were changed. The time has arrived. President Joseph Mobutu last week decreed that, as of July 1, Elisabethville will be called Lubumbashi (because it is on the Lubumba River), Stanleyville will revert to its pre-Belgian name Kisangani, and Leopoldville, the capital, will become Kinshasa-a corruption of the Bafununga phrase...
...here." Nonetheless, the Boumedienne government was worried, well aware that Aït Ahmed will probably surface in Paris, join forces there with Mohammed Boudiaf and Mohammed Khider, two other exiled members of Algeria's "Historic Nine" leaders of the liberation battle, and from abroad remind Algerians how little Boumedienne has done to better their dreary lot since he seized power eleven months ago. Additional guards were slapped on the prison headquarters 25 miles southwest of Algiers, where Ben Bella sits in jail. "This one won't get out," barked a prison official-uneasily...