Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ndjili Airport. First he got permission to station a few unarmed Congolese at the field. To everyone's astonishment, he then arrived himself at the head of 114 soldiers, all armed to the teeth. Soon Congolese soldiers were arresting every "suspicious" U.N. man in sight. A group of Norwegian soldiers fresh in from Europe were held as "Belgian paratroopers," and a Pakistan colonel was threatened with bayonets. "I give up!" shouted a U.N. brigadier from Ghana, throwing his garrison cap into the air in disgust after an argument with the Congo's comic-opera army commander. "This...
...Only one man in six anticipates immediate military service. The biggest single group of graduates going to work immediately (26) is headed for engineering and electronics. The smallest group (four) will try journalism. Only eleven are going into banking, and only 30 are still looking for jobs...
Established and prosperous, locked for years in a seesaw battle for economic first place, both papers hesitate to take stands on sensitive issues that, by offending any group, might jeopardize their positions...
...Brooklyn research team, Dr. Leo Gitman reported on a careful scientific study of oldsters, in which one group received procaine injections, and another got exactly the same food and care, but without the procaine injections. The doctor could find no difference that could be unequivocally attributed to the procaine. Dr. Gitman sat down to a long roar of applause...
...Manhattan's Upper West Side last week two gangs met in a bloodless rumble. As shooting began on the $5,000,000 film version of West Side Story, the principal street fighters were Hollywood dancers with heavy makeup and bleached hair; but a more genuine group stood by with scornful interest. Wearing checked trousers and colored shirts which, by their own description, gave them a "continental Ivy League" look, far more authentic than the dated T-shirts and Levi's of the dancers, the onlookers could claim to be competent critics. On hand as extras, they were members...