Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Martin Luther King Jr. was only 13 years old, Farmer took part in a sit-in at a Chicago restaurant. A year earlier, he had founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which immediately began an assault on racial barriers in the South. In 1955, he took part in King's famed boycott against the Montgomery bus company, which forced the company to desegregate...
...those multi-industry companies whose desire to acquire often produces crazy-quilt mergers. Alarmed critics complain about shaky financial foundations, untested managements, dubious use of tax loopholes and overconcentration of economic power. Last week conglomerates ran into simultaneous and serious attack from both Congress and the Nixon Administration. The assault will almost certainly lead to new laws to control the conglomerate movement. "We're going after this," says a ranking White House adviser. "Otherwise, we'd have an economy like the Japanese, with certain large families owning everything...
Sophomores Alan Watson, Larry Carter and O'Rear led the Crimson assault by finishing third, fifth and eighth respectively. Watson's time was only three-tenths of a second behind the winner, Paul Reed of Middlebury, while Carter trailed the winning time an additional one-tenth second...
...should, it was a welcome opportunity to get their view on record. The gist of some questions: What support would the anti-Communists in the South be able to muster if they had to compete politically with the National Liberation Front? Would the pacification effort survive another major Communist assault? What are the real prospects for the South Vietnamese army to hold its own without U.S. combat units...
...originators of Laugh-In, looked like a half-hour reject from the Rowan and Martin memory bank. The host was neither Dan nor Dick but a computer, for the show was supposed to be "a satire on our dehumanized society." It was also intended as a "sensory assault," careening along, sometimes with the screen split four ways, reaching for a dizzying 300 laughs in a half hour. To add to the disorientation, the set was a white plaster cyclorama and the cast wore invisible white booties. It all seemed to come from beautiful downtown nowhere. So did the gags, leaning...