Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since McCarthy days, but indications are the fight has gone underground. Faculty at the University of California, Haverford College, and Columbia have framed resolutions condemning the current practice among security investigators of determining the liberal inclinations of federal job applicants by inquiring into students' academic pasts. "What did he talk about? What organizations did he join? Did he seem sympathetic to radical ideas...
Students at Brandeis University quietly demonstrated against a $250 tuition increase yesterday afternoon. The Student Council called the gathering of about 150 students "mature and responsible" and said it was made not only to protest the tuition raise but also to demand a chance to talk with officials...
President Abram L. Sachar said that he is still willing to talk to students, according to Miss Saft...
...rejoicing over this "great leap forward" could hardly be heard last week in Red China's cities. Reason: city dwellers had just been told that, despite the talk of a record yield, their grain rations had been cut. A "very heavy worker" in Peking, who used to get the maximum of 20.6 lbs. of wheat flour a month, will now get only twelve. Similar cuts hit the smaller rations of white-collar workers, shopkeepers and children...
...frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities in Cuba, land reform and industrial profit-sharing; he now calls these "radical ideas not good for Cuba." He goes...