Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forward Thrust's case, a 51% approval did not pass a bond issue; it took a clear 60% majority. When the voters went to the booths last year to consider twelve separate issues, costing $820 million, they passed seven of them, costing $334 million. Seattle's central area, a Negro slum, supported the entire program and will receive benefits from a $12 million street-improvement bond issue, plus new parks and swimming pools. The most expensive single item to be rejected-a $385 million mass-transit system-will be presented to the voters again next year, when traffic...
...subjected to none of the outraged harangues of the 1966 session, during which Zambia's Simon Kapwepwe labeled him a "racialist." The principal speaker on Rhodesia was Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who complained acidly, to be sure, about Wilson's proposed settlement with Salisbury. But Nyerere went on to declare, to the general amazement of his listeners: "We all love Britain...
...free on the high tides. In the years since, numerous searchers have tried to recover the cannon. Finally last week, a team from Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, using a magnetic device suspended from a helicopter, succeeded in locating the coral-encrusted guns off Endeavour Reef. "We went to collect specimens of fish," said Academy Director H. Radclyffe Roberts. "Finding the cannon was the fun side of it." ∙∙∙ When his wife told a Tokyo reporter last month that he used to consort with geishas, beat her, and "smash things," Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato...
...wanted to show the older generation that having a good time with a geisha was not their monopoly. Too bad prices are so high nowadays." ∙∙∙ Canada's swinging Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has never been one to shun the public eye. So when he went to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, he took along a planeload of newsmen. Then reporters got Divorcee Eva Rittinghausen to gush after a date with the P.M., "it was love at first sight." And photographers would not go away when Trudeau and Actress Jennifer Hales tried to steal...
...about the fact that it seeks to overthrow the university as the first step toward total revolution. Despite their political phraseology, the black student groups tend to seek relatively limited goals. At Brandeis, students wanted "soul food" (see MODERN LIVING) in the cafeteria; when they got that, however, they went on to set forth ten demands, including the right to hire the chairman for the university's new black studies department...