Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever get his own party into line, Socialist Nenni hopes that he can persuade the Christian Democrats to accept reforms in divorce, education, welfare, housing, economic planning and labor. He also knows quite well that the Christian Democrats, who must live with their own strong right wing, are unlikely to vote all those reforms. But perhaps, he reasons, there finally are enough Christian Democratic leaders who are sufficiently disturbed by last summer's upheaval in France and the drift toward disillusionment in their own society to demand that after years of do-nothing government, the next one do something...
...main thrust of what one Pikeville senior proudly calls "the only right-wing student protest movement in the country" is against the progressive policies of Thomas Johns, 37, a former Little All-America football tackle (Hanover College, 1953) who became president 19 months ago. Johns hired 30 new teachers, put a new curriculum emphasis on sociology and psychology, secured federal grants so that students can work in local antipoverty projects, and instituted compulsory courses on contemporary issues. He has appointed students to faculty and trustee committees, urged them to get involved in such local issues as water pollution, strip mining...
...patrol boats tie up 1,700 miles to the west at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kebir. Soviet subs play hide-and-seek with NATO patrols underneath the heel of Italy. Overhead, from bases in Egypt, Soviet "Badger" class planes, their red stars painted over with Egyptian markings, wing daily across the Mediterranean to shadow Allied fleets...
...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...
Harvard's lone score came on a high, looping kick by wing Ahmed Yehia late in the third period. Taking a pass from Jaime Vargas, Yehia arched a soft shot into the nets just beyond the Cadet goalie's reach...