Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been arrested, 13 more had been injured, and the Pentagon had remained immobile. Within the tide of dissenters swarmed all the elements of American dissent in 1967: hard-eyed revolutionaries and skylarking hippies; ersatz motorcycle gangs and all-too-real college professors; housewives, ministers and authors; Black Nationalists in African garb-but no real African nationalists; nonviolent pacifists and nonpacific advocates of violence-some of them anti-anti-warriors and American Nazis spoiling for a fight...
...hippie is all juvenile protest. He wears his hair extravagantly long because short hair was once the Establishment's style, and he opposes the Establishment. In a predominantly long-haired society-the African Bushman's, for example-he would doubtless shave his skull. The respectable longhair, on the other hand, is protesting nothing, and, what's more, his hair is only respectably long...
...Merchant Harry Winston, 71. "I'm afraid there isn't a market for enormous diamonds." Winston has bought the 601-carat Lesotho diamond, the seventh-largest gem-quality diamond known, which was found last May on a tiny claim owned by Petrus Ramoboa, 38, in the South African kingdom of Lesotho. Ramoboa carried his stone 110 miles to the capital of Maseru, with government help sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said he will cut it into about 20 stones selling for more than...
Columbia challenged briefly later in the quarter, but the aggressive Crimson forwards, displaying a teamwork that had been long in coming, controlled most of the action. There was a scare, though, when Lion wing Frank Kodah, a short, stocky African, boomed a corner kick into the penalty zone. The ball stayed there for several seconds while players from both teams took whacks at it until Harvard fullback Bob Gray finally cleared...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students unanimously endorsed last weekend a program which will involve black students in Roxbury. Jeffrey Howard '69, President of H-R AAAAS, announced the program after a Friday night planning meeting coordinated by Harvard AAAAS in which the New England Regional Association of African and Afro-American Students approved a two-fold action program. Its aims...