Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cohn-Bendit. One of the leaders of the near-revolution that shook France during last year's fateful "days of May" joins forces with his brother to examine the student-worker revolt. Their absorbing chronicle concludes by blaming the revolt's failure on the Communist Party, French trade unions and the left-wing establishment...
...merits any academic standing." Not all professors were even that dispassionate. J. P. Trinkaus, another biologist and master of Branford College, wrote loftily in the Yale Daily News in December that "much of the philosophy of the military runs counter to that of a university, and besides, low-level trade-school courses have no place at Yale...
Although the editors of the News and other outspoken students agreed with the faculty, it is unlikely that many of the 147 undergraduates enrolled in ROTC think of the modern military as a low-level trade. Most are convinced that the faculty is being inconsistent. Says Hewitt Chapman, a junior taking Navy ROTC: "I think the faculty is playing politics. There are plenty of other courses that don't deserve credit, and the faculty shouldn't decide on the basis of political prejudice which ones...
...meager 1968 trade surplus, only $726 million last year compared with $7.8 billion as recently as 1964, is an other painful result of inflation. Although the total volume of U.S. exports actually rose, climbing domestic price levels attracted a torrent of imports. If some $2.5 billion of U.S. exports paid for by Government aid are excluded, the nation actually suffered a trade deficit last year...
...concert was "a dream come true" for the greatest busker of all, Don Partridge, 26, who plied his trade in the streets of London for five years singing traditional English and American folk songs. One day last winter, a record company executive named Don Paul heard Partridge sing his own song, Rosie, on a street corner; he liked its cheerfulness and Partridge's McCartneyesque style...