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Gilman House will be torn down to make way for the first unit of the Fourth House, and Putnam House will again be used for administrative and tutorial offices...
...last of Colombia's big-time bandits is Pedro Antonio Marin, 34, alias "Tiro Fijo" (Sure Shot), a killer responsible for some 200 murders. In a drive to stamp out the senseless violence that has torn the country's backlands for almost two decades, an army regiment last May went after the bandit and his gang, but Tiro Fijo escaped. Now he is back in business, more vicious than ever and proclaiming himself a Castro-style guerrilla...
...Tiro Fijo, though the army somewhat lamely insisted it was the work of a local smalltime bandit. President Valencia sent 3,000 more troops into the area, but at week's end Eder was still captive and Tiro Fijo still free. Nervous Colombians feared that their torn country was headed for a new era of Communist-inspired violence and that the government was unable to do much about...
...handicaps of having to teach all grades at once are ultimately insuperable, and the children often go into high schools unable to compete with pupils from bigger grade schools. Isenberg estimates that by 1970 there will be fewer than 5,000 one-room schools. The buildings will be torn down, sold as American Legion posts, or kept as reminders of the institution that first made possible the American ideal of universal education...
...great march was over, the last hallelujah had sounded from the speaker's stand, the crowd of some 25,000 had left the streets outside the starkwhite capital in Montgomery, and a period of relative peace seemed about to descend on Alabama's strife-torn civil rights scene. Then the white racists of Alabama, in characteristic fashion, shattered that peace by murdering a white woman from Detroit. This act of moronic savagery once again outraged the national conscience, provoked the President of the U.S. into a nationwide television outburst, in which he announced the arrest of four...