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...four basic divisions, there are two main reasons which justify requiring a student to take an upper level course in lieu of a lower level offering. First, although a well-prepared student may already have covered some of the content of a lower level course which would thus bore him, he has probably not been exposed to the selective Gen Ed approach of relating disciplines within that field of knowledge. This experience would be stimulating in an upper level Gen Ed course...
...head of the King's military household, General Constantine Dovas, suggested that the Greek army be renamed the "Royal Hellenic Army" as a wedding gift to the King. Defense Minister Petros Garoufalias approved, embodied the change in a decree. After all, the navy, air force and gendarmerie already bore the appellation "royal" in their titles, and Constantine was not only by law the commander in chief of the army but in fact had their loyalty -more than he could expect from any of the other factions in the Greek body politic. Nonetheless Greek newspapers from left to right erupted...
Apparently abandoning political ambition, Shishekly emigated to Brazil in 1958, bought a small rice farm near the town of Ceres, and married a second wife, Thérèse, a Frenchwoman who bore him a daughter. Life in Ceres was quiet. Shishekly kept clear of politics, gave only a few reluctant interviews to the press, paid his debts promptly, and was respected by his neighbors, some of whom still called him "President...
...normally Republican Ohio, some abnormal things are happening. When physicians drove up to a meeting of the Butler County Medical Society, an astonishing number of their cars bore L.B.J. bumper stickers. Yet, at the same time many of those same cars carried a second sticker with another name on it: TAFT...
...biggest one involved a man who had made his secretary his mistress but disapproved of his son's going out with the secretary's daughter. Yet, since all the other new comic and dramatic series are developed through broad caricature, the odd thing about this marathonical bore is that it is about the most realistic of the new shows that have opened...