Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...nements of May 1968 that tore France apart and led directly to the fall of Charles de Gaulle. Thousands of angry Maoist students and tough riot policemen clashed in short but bloody street battles. Long-haired gauchiste (leftist) students in blue jeans and suede jackets stopped motorists in the Latin Quarter and flipped their cars over to form makeshift barricades. Rocks, bricks and chunks of metal flew at the cops, who responded with lightning baton charges that left hundreds injured, including many innocent passersby. Nearly 1,000 students were arrested...
...their newspaper The People's Cause, a shrill bimonthly with a circulation of 20,000. After the two young editors were arrested, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre took over as editor. Two days before his predecessors were to be tried, Sartre presided over a protest meeting in the Latin Quarter and urged a crowd of 3,000 to unite in protest. Thunderous cheers went up when one leftist leader shouted: "The only good policemen are in the hospital...
...cities of Latin America are littered with cardboard and packing-crate shantytowns that house hordes of landless peasants in search of jobs. Usually such squatters' settlements are either deliberately overlooked by officialdom or broken up by police within a few days. In the Chilean capital of Santiago, however, a luxuriantly mustached leftist named Victor Toro, 28, has founded a poblacion callampa ("mushroom town") that the government cannot ignore and the police cannot destroy...
...Humanities, James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, was elected to replace Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy, whose term expired. Herbert Bloch. professor of Greek and Latin, was re-elected...
George P. Goold, professor of Greek and Latin and chairman of the committee, said last night that Kelman was a unanimous choice. "Often in the past, we've been at a loss to choose between two or three, but his [Kelman's] was the best-composed and the best-delivered." Goold said. The speech was entitled "How to Overcome Our Isolation...