Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OBSOLETE COMMUNISM: THE LEFT-WING ALTERNATIVE, by Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit. Radical leader Cohn-Bendit and his brother analyze last year's student-worker uprising in France, blaming its failure on lack of support from the Communist Party and trade unions...
There will be a special security problem in Berlin. The city's Free University is the center of youthful opposition to the Bonn regime and to continued U.S. influence in Germany. Last week left-wing students there denounced Nixon as "the shifty agent of the most reactionary kind of American bourgeois society" and resolved to demonstrate against him. Most of West Berlin's 20,000-man police force-including 5,000 reservists-will be turned out during Nixon's three-hour stay...
...York Rangers' Rod Gilbert, for example, explains that from his right-wing position "with a straight stick and a fast play the shot will slide off my stick like a golfer's slice. But with the curved stick I can hold the puck a second longer, have better control when I fake the goalie, and then whip it into the corner with the left-hand spin and know it won't trail off." Other players say that the sickle stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield...
...literally changed the shape of modern aviation when he designed the "Coke bottle" fuselage - a narrow-waisted plane body that helps high-speed jets to slip through the sound barrier into supersonic flight. Now, 18 years later, Whitcomb has done it again. He has de veloped a radically new wing that will allow subsonic jets to fly faster, more smoothly and more efficiently...
OBSOLETE COMMUNISM: THE LEFT-WING ALTERNATIVE, by Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit. One of the leaders of the near-revolution that shook France during last year's fateful "days of May" joins forces with his brother to examine the student-worker revolt. Their absorbing chronicle concludes by blaming the revolt's failure on the Communist Party, French trade unions and the left-wing establishment...