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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named Pyotr Grigorenko. The demonstrators are typically youthful intellectuals; Grigorenko is a limping elder of 63 who until five years ago held a major general's commission in the Red Army and before that taught cybernetics at the elite Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Others may wear a beard as an ensign of protest. The clean-shaven Grigorenko's emblem is a cane that he carries because of war wounds. With it, he has been known to fight off policemen and young Communists dispatched to bait him when he appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Once Too Often | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...course, the style of France's presidency?under Pompidou or anyone else ?must change drastically from De Gaulle's. It is not simply that the general's mantle is too large for any one man to hope to wear. France itself has changed, and the departure of De Gaulle is bound to accelerate not only the pace of change but also the people's realization of the nation they are becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: FRANCE ENTERS A NEW ERA | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...number of years. I was ashamed for him to see the sleazy characters who were wandering around the Yard. However, I would not have one lock of their greasy looking, long hair shorn by edict nor force them near a drop of water nor insist that they wear perfume. But I certainly cannot say that I was proud of the outward appearance of the old Alma Mater as far as its students were concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITTLE DICTATORS | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

...themselves "Nam's Angels,"* but aside from one swastika that appeared on a crash helmet (it was ordered rubbed off), there is little of the Hell's Angel type in the four young soldiers. Their helmets are camouflaged, they carry .45s, and instead of leather gear, they wear flak jackets and fatigues. "Back in the world," as they refer to the U.S., they all grew up around engines, and Viet Nam has never seemed so like home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: And Now a Vroom | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...Sophomores at Chapel. The next morning the Government of the College, continuing its policy of retaliation, expelled two Freshmen who had led the Class into Chapel and one Junior who was accused of making a disturbance in Chapel. Consequently, the Juniors in another defiant meeting overwhelmingly voted to wear Black crepe on their arms for the next three weeks to display their open hostility to the administration's injustice. They also resolved to publish a circular that would give a fair account of the events...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: It Happened at Harvard: The Story of a Freshman Named Maxwell | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

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