Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political Spin. And excel they did-until 1965, when they dropped out of international tournaments in the wake of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Last week, in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships at Nagoya, Japan, the Chinese were back again, reconfirming their prowess as the fastest wrists in the East. In the competition with 308 players from 54 countries, their 22-member team swept four of the seven main events and won the Swaythling Cup, the table tennis counterpart of the Davis Cup. Sometimes using the traditional "handshake" grip of the West (as opposed to the "penholder" grip developed...
...then shifted to a refutation of specific arguments used to oppose the disruptive tactic. Putnam advocated more militant actions in the future, suggesting a picket line around University Hall to force a confrontation with University officials on the issue of discipline in the wake of disruption...
When he became secretary-general of France's Radical Party more than a year ago, Politician-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber promised to lead the decaying organization to victory in the 1971 municipal elections. He campaigned lustily; the Radicals lost overwhelmingly. In the wake of that letdown, J.J. S.S. expressed a somewhat disdainful attitude toward the legislative process in France. "I don't have the right," he said recently, "to waste my time and the money of my electors by attending the National Assembly." To avoid a wrenching showdown within the party, Servan-Schreiber last week took what...
...wake of the disruption of last Friday's pro-war teach-in, University Administrators are meeting almost continuously with student groups to express their concern over freedom of speech at Harvard...
...sound one ominous note: long-term effects in children may be serious. In an as yet unpublished study, he reports on eight children. All had a previous history of being timid and nervous, and many of their parents had a "tendency to overreact to the threatening situation." In the wake of the riots, the children's condition grew markedly worse. All were affected by such varying symptoms as fainting spells, asthmatic attacks, and visible tension at the thought of leaving the house. Two children were subject to an increase of grand mal epileptic seizures. In some cases, the response...