Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. While the lines of Peter Weiss's philosophical argument of the social revolutionary v. the anarchic egoist are a trifle jaded, the theatricality of his drama, as performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook, is totally jarring...
Class No. 5-bringing to 50 the total roster of active astronauts-is younger and better educated than the original Mercury team (32.8 years v. 34.5; 5.8 years of college v. 4.3). All 19 are seasoned jet pilots. Seven are Air Force officers, six Navymen, two Marines and four civilians. One, Air Force Captain Joe H. Engle, who last June rocketed an X-15 experimental plane to an altitude of 53.1 miles, has already reached the lower fringes of space. Two are Viet Nam veterans: Lieut. Commander Paul J. Weitz, recently returned home after flying 132 combat missions...
Omahans have come to expect such activist involvement from Mayor A. V. (for Alexander Vergman) Sorensen, 61, who has bestirred and revitalized Nebraska's largest city (pop. 350,000) since he moved into City Hall last May. Says Fred Jacobberger, city council president: "No one else could have brought order out of chaos in such a short time...
Last week in Portsmouth, Va., a Negro dentist, James W. Holley III, 39, became the first non-white ever to win the Democratic nomination for the city council. His victory was swung by a Negro ward that gave him a lopsided 990 ballots v. 114 for two white rivals. Nonetheless, most Negroes were apparently voting for Holley not because he is a Negro but because they-like many whites-respect his long record of participation in community activities. The potential Negro vote may be greatly shrunk by political apathy, born of centuries of disenfranchisement and ignorance, and mirrored...
...appointment by the Corporation is approved by the Board of Overseers today as expected, he will come to Harvard in September. John V. Lindsay, mayor of New York City, said last week that Dr. Yerby will remain hospital commissioner until August...