Word: returning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black, a blood bath might have followed. For the blacks, the week had already been bitter enough as Verwoerd's police and troops relentlessly worked to stamp out the dying embers of revolt. Chief quarry was the ringleaders who still urged blacks to stay at home rather than return to their jobs in white men's shops and factories...
...week's end De Gaulle could return to France well content. Problems aplenty remained, but France and Britain seemed once more united by the bonds of sincere fellow feeling that have supported them through two major wars in this century. Their disagreements are in method, not in purpose...
Planning a return to West German stages after a 30-year absence, Berlin-born Glamour Girl Marlene Dietrich, 55. was aware that her'reception might be chilly. Reason: during and after World War II, Grandma Marlene damned Hitler and his works so roundly that many Germans still believe she is downright anti-German. Marlene's impending return created a spate of mumbling in the West German press. She shrugged it off: "The only thing I'm really afraid of is eggs. I have a swans-down coat, and if an egg ever hits...
...Small. Victor Butterfield has an exciting alternative: Wesleyan's new "College Plan," this year's shrewdest innovation in independent study. After World War II, Wesleyan elected to stay small-and get better. It stiffened courses, doubled the faculty, lured lively outside lecturers. But "a kind of diminishing return" seemed apparent. Instead of "catching the intellectual contagion." says Butterfield, students merely became "more dutiful." Another problem: What moral right did Wesleyan have to turn away a growing flood of able applicants...
Although she cannot read music and is so implausibly naive that she describes microphones as "boxes hanging from bent poles," Anna Lou does well-with an audio engineer's help. Harper and a magazine photographer return with her in triumph to New Bethel, Pa., and dredge up material for a cover story. Back in New York, Anna Lou (now Beth Adams) is bathed in fame on a TV show, more fame as singer of the top tune on the charts...