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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year the Chinese government instituted nationwide standardized tests for all prospective college students for the first time since the Cultural Revolution in 1966. On July 20 nearly six million students took the test to compete for only 300,000 places in Chinese colleges and universities. The test covered eight subjects--politics, history, geography, physics, mathematics, chemistry, Chinese language and a foreign language. All students were required to take the tests in politics, Chinese and math, and they had to choose two or three of the remaining subjects...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

Harvard, led by freshman Dave Heyman and senior Rich Gillette, took the sabre event, however...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Engineers Cut Fencing Squad; Crimson Stabbed in Epee Event | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...these ideas. The sheer overwhelming power of the film's depiction of the horror that we call Vietnam left me emotionally drained. The strongest message reverberating through the movie is the total madness with which the Vietnam War was conducted. In the name of democracy and freedom, which we took upon ourselves to defend anywhere in the world, America found itself mired in the tropical hell of Vietnam--fighting a war with no strategy beyond slaughtering as many Viet Cong as possible, deploying awesomely lethal and destructive technology but without the will to wield it effectively...

Author: By Michael Korn, | Title: Vietnam on my Mind | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...took the Kemeny Commission months of testimonies, and reviews to pass judgement on nuclear power," Bok said, adding "the ACSR should not try and get into this kind of decision-making...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Bok Rejects Anti-Nuke Stand, Opposes Initiation of Proxies | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

Moeller also plays a little better than anybody else. The Moeller monolith not only bowls over all local opponents but dispatches out-of-state challengers as well. This season, Moeller crushed a perennial Detroit schoolboy power, Brother Rice High School, 33-14, then took on the flagship school of the tough western Pennsylvania mine country, Penn Hills High; score: Moeller 30, Penn Hills 13. The Crusaders' final regular season game against Mount Healthy was typical. Despite a driving rain that turned the field into a swamp, the flashy Moeller offense still operated in high gear, rolling up five touchdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moeller High's Holy Rollers | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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