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Word: toure (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central, open-air pavilion, used as both a school and an assembly hall. The visitors saw the newly completed sawmill, the 10,000-volume library, the neat nursery, where mosquito netting protected babies sleeping peacefully on pallets. The colony hospital had delivered 33 babies without a single death, the tour guides said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...sketchy, the plans apparently called for sympathetic members of the police to besiege Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, hold Suárez hostage and install their own people in power. The target date: Nov. 17, the day King Juan Carlos was scheduled to leave for a two-week tour of Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Restiveness on the Right | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Freshman Arts program sponsored the workshop, part of a series which attempts to bring students into contact with practicing professionals. Maysles, who collaborates on his movies with his brother, David, filmed the 1969 documentary Gimme Shelter, a controversial record of a Rolling Stones concert tour that climaxed in the murders of several audience members at Altamont...

Author: By Joseph T. Scarry, | Title: Documentary Director Albert Maysles Shows and Discusses 'Gray Gardens' | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

Film director Albert Maysles, known for his documentary of the 1969 Rolling Stones tour, "Gimme Shelter," will give a screening of his latest film and talk with students this afternoon at 4 p.m. in Parlor B of the Freshman Union...

Author: By Joseph T. Scarry, | Title: Maysles Talk | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

...mechanics was not taught in universities in this country because it was considered theoretical rather than practical and because it was supposedly 'invented by foreigners.' " Though such obscurantism is no longer official policy, there remains a woeful lack of teachers and teaching aids. During Schlesmger's tour of the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, Correspondent Talbott saw one class assembling primitive watches and another studying the inner workings of antique radios made with vacuum tubes rather than transistors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Teng's New Long March | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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