Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival in Kiev, capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Rademaekers was greeted in French by an Intourist guide. Although he speaks German, Hungarian, and some Italian and Spanish, Rademaekers has no facility in French. He asked the guide if she spoke English or any of the other languages. "No," she informed him coldly. "You are French." The correspondent produced his passport and tried to explain why the visa came from Paris, not New York. But since the guide could speak no English and he no French, the conversation ended with a surly driver delivering the "Frantsuzsky tourist" downtown...
...third-year student is, on the other hand, a veteran of civil rights works in Lowndes County and Anniston, Ala. She came down because she wanted to see what had been accomplished since then. "There has been change," she remarked. "When I was down here in '64 nobody spoke to us about getting Negroes to overcome their fear of voting. They weren't allowed to vote...
Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, spoke out last night against "greater inequalities between old and new Houses at Harvard," criticizing in particular the conditions which have made Lowell the most overcrowded House in the College...
When De Gaulle's black Citroen finally rumbled down the twisting road back to France, Andorrans wondered why their French Co-Prince had decided to come. De Gaulle spoke of building a technical school in Andorra and of connecting the principality by tunnel with France, but those announcements could have been made in Paris. Spanish officials called the visit "more picturesque than political," but Andorrans did not ponder De Gaulle's mysterious ways for long. They reopened their shutters and went back to catering to the thousands of lesser Frenchmen who come to Andorra each year to shop...
Since the Patriarch has no jurisdictional authority over most of Orthodoxy's autonomous branches, the meeting could not in itself produce any decision that might lead to union between the two churches. Nonetheless, Pope and Patriarch twice spoke with each other about such common problems as secularization, peace and war for more than an hour-the longest length of time they have had together. Once again, the two churchmen made it clear that they are uncommonly eager for unity...