Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow Hope's boffola performance would be difficult for any man, but the President of the U.S. rose manfully to the occasion-and delighted his audience. "Politics is an astonishing profession," he said gravely. "It has permitted me to go from being an obscure lieutenant serving under General MacArthur to Commander in Chief in fourteen years without any technical competence whatsoever. It has also enabled me to go from being an obscure member of the junior varsity at Harvard to being an honorary member of the Football Hall of Fame...
...doctors at Prince Leopold Hospital complained about the aim of some of the U.N.'s gun crews. For ten hours one night, mortar shells blasted the hospital walls and roof; patients crawled screaming into the corridors; one African woman in the process of giving birth rose in terror and fled before her delivery, was not seen again. A U.N. spokesman admitted the firing, said the rounds were aimed at a Katangese army camp 800 yds. beyond the hospital. But some of the shells even hit a Roman Catholic cathedral in an African residential section, and others exploded near...
...During a one-day trip to Paris last week, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer did not change stiff-backed Charles de Gaulle's mind, but seemed to convince him at least that he should not boycott such talks when they do occur. Meanwhile, in divided Berlin itself, tension rose...
Ohio State tried its first dose of Ivy League "altruism" last week, and didn't like it. The Faculty Council of the nation's leading football (and basketball) power voted 28 to 25 not to allow its magnificent eleven to accept a bid to the Rose Bowl, after which, as any fool could have predicted, all hell broke loose in Columbus...
...however, was as infuriated as the players. The decision was exceptionally unpleasant for them, since they had won the right to play in the Rose Bowl and had been invited, only to have their own school turn them down. The team added greatly to the school's prestige, and engendered quite a bit of alumni interest that undoubtedly would not have existed otherwise; the Council's misguided altruism seemed like an unfeeling insult. What are the players supposed to do now? Study...