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...preparation for the intensive nationwide campaign this spring, which will be organized by the Bay Area Committee, the Liberal Union is readying a week-long series of seminars and lectures. The Committee hopes to arrange a debate between Burton White and Fulton Lewis III, a member of the HUAC staff...
...natives, convinced that no tourist would come to the island so long as it held a single prisoner, signed a petition urging their final removal. By this summer, almost all the prisoners were gone, and, in response to a great, government-sponsored publicity campaign, masses of tourists arrived (15,000 so far this year). Ustica has few entertainments to offer them-not even movies-but it has fish-rich waters, deep blue grottoes to plumb, and long stretches of land to walk. Thoroughly pleased with the setting, the week-long International Underwater Convention stayed submerged long enough...
...evacuation from Dunkirk of 338,226 British and French troops, soundly whipped by the German army but rescued by an improvised flotilla of 1,200 ships under week-long bombardment, was closer to triumph than to tragedy. By rights, the saga of Dunkirk deserves a Homer, but even in the jabbing, boilerplate prose of British Journalist Richard Collier, a reliable but uninspired artisan of "The Day That" books (The City That Would Not Die-TIME, Jan. II, 1960), the story vividly recalls the curious, human mosaic of heroic and horrifying experience that was pre-Hiroshima warfare...
...14th session of Radcliffe's Publishing Procedures course closed last week with a presentation of the six magazines the 50 enrolled students had edited and designed. These fascinating but hypothetical publications were the projects of a week-long workshop in magazine design climaxing a six-week session of lectures, field trips, and a workshop of production...
...Diet, a few blocks away, inching their way along at ushi aruki (cow's pace) so that traffic was blocked for five hours. A column of screaming Zengakuren students stoned police guards lined up at the Diet, injuring scores. In Kyoto and Osaka, other student demonstrators staged week-long battles with the police...