Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down from the Mountains. Last fortnight Naousa was gay and proud. The town's civic center, decked with Greek and U.S. flags, was renamed Truman Square. General James A. Van Fleet was on hand for the ceremonies. The town's young mayor, Nikolas Theophilou, thanked him for U.S. aid; the general praised Naousa's garrison for bravery against the enemy...
...first daylight, young Mayor Theophilou was seized at home, dragged and kicked through the streets to Truman Square, backed up against a white marble monument. Said a rebel capitanos: "You've had a lot of experience lately making speeches to your American friends. Why not make one for us?" Theophilou straightened and started to answer: "I am mayor of this town and-" A spatter of bullets from rebel Tommy guns cut him off. For three days his body stayed there, propped against the bloodstained marble. Thus the lesson began...
...British statesman Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
...young member of the Philosophy Department here refused a proffered summer appointment after Washington's president Raymond B. Allen, dismissed two members of his faculty over the objections of the University Senate. That group is the schools court of appeal in cases involving academic freedom and problems of tenure...
...Many point out that the school is taking the place of the frontier as a means of social mobility in American society," he said. "Once it was, 'Go west young man!' Now a young man looks to education to improve himself. Schools are a national responsibility. I do not see how their function is inconsistent with some centralization...