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...occasion was the tenth World Youth Festival, a quadrennial gathering of the young sponsored by the Communist bloc. It attracted 25,000 leftist youths from 134 countries, including 300 from the U.S. They were joined by at least 100,000 blue-shirted members of the German Democratic Republic's highly regimented Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), Free German Youth...
Born. To Dick Gregory, 41, the bitterest and perhaps the best of America's black social satirists, and Lillian Gregory, 34: their tenth child, third son; in Chicago. Name: Yohance. Gregory, who has been fasting since 1971 to protest the war in Southeast Asia, now weighs 116 lbs. (down from 170). He plans-once again-to give up his nightclub act and become-again-a lecturer on the college-campus circuit. He also plans to start eating-again-when the U.S. stops bombing Cambodia...
...become Minister of Justice in the wartime Liberal government of Mackenzie King. As his country's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion. Canada's gross national product -sparked by American investment-nearly doubled, Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province, and the country took an increasingly large role as an "honest broker" in international affairs...
...binocular microscope and a tiny beam of normal white light. After zeroing in on the target growth, the surgeon then steps on a foot pedal that opens a shutter on the laser and allows the infra-red laser beam to strike the diseased tissue for as little as one-tenth or as much as one-half of a second. In several "shots," the powerful laser beam literally vaporizes the tissue on which it is focused, at the same time cauterizing nearby blood vessels so that there is no bleeding. It is so accurate that healthy neighboring tissue is not damaged...
Schwartz said that there had been rumors that the meetings of the Tenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party would be taking place during August...