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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glorious, gala night for Rhodesia's whites. Champagne flowed, ladies wore elegant gowns, their men were in tuxedos and regimental kilts. At midnight, after guests saluted him with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, Prime Minister Ian Smith rang Rhodesia's silver Independence Bell an even dozen times, greeting the start of the twelfth year since his regime unilaterally broke away from Britain. The festivities may mark the last time that whites in Rhodesia can celebrate that particular act of independence. But the mood at the ball was stubbornly defiant. In the spirit of the occasion...
...Zappa gets up from his rocking chair--his belly button is exposed (an innie, I think), and he's not wearing any underwear under those tight bell-bottoms (woo, woo)--he puts on a stylish coat, turns off the lights in his room (except one to keep the crooks out), and leaves...
...Spotsylvania County, Va., planter for $850 and renamed Toby. But Kunta does not tame easily. Following his fourth escape attempt, half his right foot is cut off by professional slave catchers. He eventually becomes the buggy driver for a physician. In 1789 Kunta marries a slave woman named Bell, who bears their daughter Kizzy. At 15, Kizzy is sold to a North Carolina planter who promptly rapes...
James Earl Carter III, 26, known as "Chip," was out in front of the main gate at the Bell Helicopter plant in Hurst, Texas, grinning at the workers and shaking hands, being careful to squeeze a mite harder than the other person-an old pol's trick to ease the wear and tear on himself. "Hi, Chip," one worker nodded pleasantly. "I heard you was gonna be here." Replied Carter: "We sure do need your help in November." Chip has been home only six times for brief visits during the past year, but, unlike his father, he still finds...
Derrick A. Bell, Jr., professor of Law, said yesterday that "the type of admissions program with which the California decision deals has become obsolete. Our minority program here at Harvard really encompasses the majority. It is only a part of the rather broad and subjective criterion that admissions people use. These kinds of programs are less subject to legal attacks of this sort...