Word: tried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immoderate as the moderate Tarn Chau might have appeared, he could not hold a candle to Thich Tri Quang, the rebellious high priest of Hue. Carrying civil disobedience to an ingenious new low, Tri Quang ordered all Buddhists in the ancient imperial capital to display their defiance by hauling family altars out of their homes into the nearest street. Thousands complied, and the Hue police did nothing to stop them. The altars blocked all roads, halting for 48 hours convoys on their way to a military buildup north of Hue-until Tri Quang generously allocated a few hours every...
...officers had been in rebellion against the government in Saigon. Working carefully, he finally felt strong enough to dispatch 400 combat police to take over Hue. His cops entered the city without interference, arrested Hue's own rebellious police, and ordered the altars removed. And as the fasting Tri Quang grew so weak that he was admitted to a local military hospital, Ky happily announced that all was well. So well that he might even fly off to South Korea for a meeting of Asia's anti-Communist nations...
Because airlines needed a medium-haul plane that could keep on earning after prime daytime passenger hours, United helped Boeing jigger its tri-jet 727 to set the entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven...
...individual research projects, on the other hand, will probably thrive. Most of the researchers are eager to win the co-operation of local school systems and to work in them. Although the Shadow Faculty has shifted its theoretical model from the Crazy School to the Instant School to the Tri-School, the individual research projects have survived and have developed continuities of their...
...feel pressured to try solidifying what we're doing," Olds admits, "to concentrate on the results of our projects and try to improve the tri-school model." In other words, the Executive Committee has been asking to see some tangible results from the Shadow Faculty's debating and theorizing...