Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Experiment and Protest. Since its founding in 1948 as an alternative to Communist-controlled Humboldt University in East Berlin, Free University has led West Germany in both academic experiment and student protest. Last year, in the wake of student disorders, West Berlin's parliament reorganized the administration of the school. The position of rector-a full professor elected to govern the university for two years by his fellow professors-was replaced with a more powerful president elected for seven years by a council of 33 professors, 33 lecturers, 33 students and 15 university employees. Kreibich, who is thought...
Since 1965, when at least 300,000 Communists were massacred in the wake of an abortive coup and President Sukarno was effectively removed from power, the military has not had a serious political rival. The parties are fragmented, and Parliament is under the army's thumb. In economic enterprise even more than in politics, the army is making its mark-and quite a few fortunes. Generals, colonels and majors serve as governors, industrialists and hotel managers. Occasionally they even serve as soldiers...
...church has indeed lagged in community service, but a $75,000 mortgage on its new (1966) brick building bites deeply into its budget; besides, Puerto Rican Methodists are typically conservative and pietistic. But some, in the wake of the Lords' takeover, are urging hurry-up consideration of church-run breakfast and day-care projects. "They are willing to have the building used as a service to the community," says one Methodist official, "but as an expression of their own religious faith...
...Harrison said that he was disappointed his team could only tie Navy in the rebounding totals. "I wanted to beat this team convincingly in order to wake up a few people around here who think that the teams we played over vacation let up on us," he said...
Columbia did at least as well, with victories over 20th-ranked Villanova, 76-64, at the ECAC's and a drubbing of Wake Forest...