Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DESPITE the intensity of the military struggle, the Communists in South Viet Nam have never ceased their drive to indoctrinate the populace. In Communist-controlled areas, a political lecture is an intrinsic part of everyday life. For the youngsters in Viet Cong-run schools, the effort to instill the "spirit of struggle" begins right in the first grade. Ten-year-olds learn from their chemistry textbooks how to mix and use explosives, and in physics they are taught how to build a bunker so as to make it safe against various kinds of allied shelling and bombing. If they...
...Although many leading theologians, Catholics among them, are trying to avoid defining God at all, the Pope described him in highly anthropomorphic terms: "We believe in one only God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, creator of things visible, such as this world, of things invisible, such as the pure spirits which are also called angels...
...Paris-Match employees, of course, were not buying that line. They promised to economize and voted to strike in October, the first month of heavy fall advertising, if the dismissals were carried out. They fear that the famed Paris-Match spirit has been fatally damaged, that the flamboyant weekly will never be quite the same again. "We are a team, with our 1,000th issue just published," said a veteran staffer. "It was going to be a big fete with a photo exposition at the Louvre with 1,000 pictures. Now, instead, the mood is one of mourning...
...Frankfurt. Called the "conscience of his country," Bauer was named chief prosecutor of the state of Hesse in 1956, ultimately brought hundreds of fugitives to justice, including the notorious Auschwitz adjutant Karl Höcker. Died. Donald A. Hall, 69, engineering genius who designed Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in San Diego. "CAN YOU CONSTRUCT PLANE CAPABLE FLYING NONSTOP BETWEEN NEW YORK AND PARIS...
...engaging conclusion, the author conjures up an evening at the theater to evoke what he likes best about France: the mocking, lighthearted spirit of Beaumarchais' Le Manage de Figaro. It was just such a Figaro-like nation, he says, young and insolent, that was able to teach France's two great traditions to the world: the hierarchic and the libertarian. "We taught kings how to be kings," exults Nourissier, "then taught the people how to rid themselves of kings." In the process, "France perfected a certain kind of man-quick, insolent, fired by his conquests and the vision...