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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assembled in a university hall to decide how to present the rector with their grievences. It took them an hour, from 1 to 2 p.m., to cover the mile from that hall to the cluster of buildings in front of his house. There they stopped. Some 400 police, one unit on horseback, and the 40 Land Rover jeeps and three Volkswagon Minibusses in which they had come, blocked the way. Three West-German-made water-throwing "tanks" were off to the side...
...rioters were some 380 Malays, members of a 470-man recruit-training company of Singapore's snappy Local Defense Corps, a military unit that guards power plants and government buildings in the tiny Asian seaport state. Though Singapore's population of nearly 2,000,000 is four-fifths Chinese, half of its cops and soldiers come from the 270,000 Malays, who comprise a jealous and often violent minority. Hence, when a Chinese Defense Corps major last week ordered the recruit company to split up by race and then dismissed the Malays from military service, the amok mechanism...
...computer time will cost the University approximately 50 cents per minute, plus extra charges for servicing and the use of New England Telephone Company facilities. Students will use the unit for free...
Girls will first formulate a program then dial the central computer's number and type out their program and data on telephone-typewriter unit. The computer will type the answers back to the dorm extension...
Opposing Proposals. A widely suggested solution to the problem involves the creation of a new, artificial unit of currency. In Paris this week, before a meeting of the Group of Ten (Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, the U.S.), Treasury Under Secretary Frederick L. Deming intends to outline a plan conceived in part by his predecessor, Robert Roosa, who is now a partner of Brown Bros. Harriman. It proposes establishment of the cru-for collective reserve unit-which would supplement reserves of dollars and pounds in international payments. The U.S. idea is that movements...