Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Papadopoulos began a campaign to put the revolutionary council, the junta's shadowy ruling body, out of business. In conducting affairs of state, he ignored the council, instead sought ratification of his programs from the civilian-dominated Cabinet. Government censors allowed two Athens papers to report that the revolutionary council no longer existed...
...them-though the man who touched off the whole furor was no where to be found. Once they were allowed to resume publication, newspapers gave the story banner play, but they understandably shied away from overt editorial comment. Rio's Jornal do Brasil, however, printed a wry weather report that bore no relation to actual meteorological conditions. "Weather black," it said. "Temperature suffocating. The air is unbreathable. The country is being swept by a strong wind." With parliamentary democracy and the rule of law temporarily suspended once again, the wind of popular resentment may well increase in velocity. What...
...that sometime next year, Daniel Jackson Oliver Wendell Holmes Morgan, now 59, may get up, clear his throat and argue before the highest court in the land. Morgan, who was freed last May and now lives in Washington, says that he is "seriously considering" doing just that. Court officers report that there is no reason why a nonlawyer may not plead his own case before the justices. Even if he does not win, Morgan's triumph will no doubt encourage other jailhouse lawyers to hope that they, too, may one day demonstrate their skills before the U.S. Supreme Court...
...year to make long-range recommendations on a developing crisis of "wastefulness" and "chaos" in higher education, the commission soon decided to change its ground rules. Financial problems facing higher education were so urgent that the commissioners decided short-range solutions were needed-now. Thus last week's report (others will be issued later) focused specifically on the next eight years,* on the problems that will reach U.S. campuses with the college candidates produced by the post-World War II baby boom...
...figures show that while 19 out of 20 of the brightest students in the top 25% income group get to college, only 10 out of 20 of the promising students in the lowest 25% income group get there. "The proportion of Negroes in the American college population," the report notes, "is less than half the proportion of Negroes in the population as a whole...