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...When they began to put teeth in the draft," Watson said, "students who had been out of school for a number of years began to say, 'I'm going to get back in under that umbrella...
...protective parental umbrella over Guy began to shred when, at 14, he left Georgetown Day and enrolled at Hawthorne, another progressive private school, located in the now reconstructed slum of Southwest Washington. Though not the first Negro to enter Hawthorne, Guy was the first to stay there, and eventually won a prize for being the best all-round student. Soon, though, he realized that he was a Negro, and some of what that meant. In an annual school forum on race relations, he shocked his white friends by saying: "Whenever I'm in a room with mostly white students...
...Administration's decision was a response to the Soviet's construction of a similar umbrella around several cities. Since the Russians' efforts became public knowledge last year, there has been inecssant howling from Republicans and some Democrats about a new "missile gap." Richard Nixon-- the victim of the last such "gap"--theratened to make ABM's an issue in the 1968 Presidential campaign...
Charles de Gaulle's lordly insistence on playing all the international fields has benefited at least one French organization-Agence France Presse. Working under the umbrella of France's cordial relations with some of the world's prickliest countries, A.P.P. men report from 144 nations and territories outside France. Now that the Reuters man in Peking has been placed under house arrest, A.F.P.'s Jean Vincent and René Flipo are the only Western correspondents left at liberty to roam the streets as they please in search of news. An A.F.P. man reports regularly from Hanoi...
Siegel and his associates incubated the soil in a hostile ammoniac atmosphere, and fed it with a nutrient broth. Within weeks, there appeared a strange microorganism, umbrella-shaped, with radiating spokes and a stalk terminating in a bulb. Though unfamiliar with anything like it, Siegel noted that the organism flourished amid conditions resembling the ammonia-laden atmosphere that probably prevailed on earth when the earliest forms of life were developing, some 3 billion years...