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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upper Volta, Lieut. Colonel Sangoule Lamizane, 50, ousted President Maurice Yaméogo after four days of demonstrations in the capital city of Quagadougou against a proposed 20% cut in government salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Soldiers on the March | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...acting is a monument to awkwardness. Only Jean Paul Belmondo seems to see the ludicrous futility in it all--he looks as if he were going to wink at any moment. Leslie Caron perfects her crying technique, the one where she ever so emotionally quivers her upper lip over those embarrassing buck teeth and turns bravely liquid. Alain Delon's limp wrist isn't quite that of an underground leader and Kirk Douglas's General Patton is something to behold. About the only activity for the audience (aside from falling asleep) is identifying the innumerable faces that appear in cameo...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Is Paris Burning? | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

...symptomatic of the liberalization of Massachusetts' social and political mores that when Saltonstall decided last week to retire from the U.S. Senate in a year's time, the Negro state attorney general made a strong bid to become the first of his race to sit in the upper house since Reconstruction. Republican Brooke, who is not even a Bay State native, has already attracted wide support for the nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: The Last Brahmin | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...pattern the match will take seems fairly clear. Harvard's best wrestlers are concentrated in the lighter weight classes, while Cornell solds three powerful men in a row in the upper brackets: Jeff Stephens at 147, Fran Ferrare at 177, and Bob Buchwald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visit to Ithaca Will Make Or Break Wrestling Team | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...different aptitudes, fields of interest, and levels of preparation of the freshman class. The members of the seminar were required to take Hum 6 and strongly urged to take Nat Sci 5. In the Spring term, instead of the seminar work, everyone took Soc Sci 136, Riesman's upper level Gen Ed course. So the seminar was more than a course; it was a way of life, tying its members together through the same course load and weekly dinner meetings...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Riesman: An Educator Prodding Students and Teachers to Face The Fears of 'Being Ridiculous' | 1/5/1966 | See Source »

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