Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seven Minutes, Wallace...
...Forty-seven percent of the public would follow a prearranged withdrawal timetable, even if the Saigon government were to collapse as a result; only 38% would alter the schedule to save the Thieu regime. Among leaders, the commitment is even firmer: 56% opted to pull out in the face of a government disaster; only 31% agreed to stay...
...events produced internal and external crises for Lebanon. Karami resigned as caretaker Premier. Arab leaders called a general strike, and some of the 160,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon fought pitched battles with police in Beirut. In Tripoli, Lebanon's second city, street battles killed seven and injured scores. Helou was forced to declare a nationwide curfew to prevent further disorders...
Anti-egalitarians mounted a chorus of outrage against democratized education in England seven months ago with a collection of essays entitled Fight for Education: A Black Paper. The latest barrage came this month with the publication of Black Paper Two: The Crisis in Education. Both were written by a group of traditionally minded novelists, politicians and educators. As they see it, England's thin red line of intellectual royalists is being overrun by "progressive" reformers who deliberately sabotage old-fashioned academic virtues...
What will come of the reforms lies entirely in the hands of Pope Paul. Describing himself as a spectator who did not want to interfere with the synod's "complete liberty," he listened attentively to synod speeches at five of the seven sessions and scribbled notes. During intermissions, he mingled with the prelates over coffee and biscuits in the daily clerical kaffeeklatsch...