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...wake, the city of 70,000 lay divided by fear and hatred. Rumors circulated through the ghetto that five of the dead had been shot repeatedly and at close range by police using private weapons to avoid identification. Police Chief Broadus Bequest's refusal to meet next day with either black leaders or members of the press to refute the charges against the police only added to the speculation and rumor. At week's end a dusk-to-dawn curfew was still in effect, and 1,000 National Guardsmen, their nameplates covered with tape, patrolled the ghetto area...
...lifelong friend and later secretary, Jaime Sabartés. Over the years, Picasso gave Sabartés a treasure trove of his works. In 1963. Sabartés donated the rich collection to the city of Barcelona, which provided a lovely old palacio to house it. Picasso's bequest was actually made a month ago, when he summoned a Barcelona notary public to his Riviera villa and dictated a document, declaring, "I, Pablo Picasso, in memory of my unforgettable friend Jaime Sabartés, grant the bequest to the city of Barcelona...
...last two world wars. From the 1916 tank evolved the bulldozing tractor. World War II was a veritable cornucopia: the first aerosol bomb, radar, the jet aircraft engine, and the ballistic missiles that, a scant generation later, took man to the moon. And of course that dubious bequest, thermonuclear energy leashed in the Bomb. That weapon redefined war. For the first time, man held in his hands a weapon that could destroy the earth and all living things upon it-a weapon so powerful that human reason would refuse to wield it. So, in any event, goes the argument...
Founded in 1911 through a bequest from the late Dean James Barr Ames, the Competition subjects members of the law clubs to three complex rounds of appellate brief writing and oral advocacy. Participation in the upper rounds of the Ames Competition is regarded as one of the highest honors at the School...
...class will be the 33rd annual group of Niemans at Harvard. The Fellowships were established in 1938 under a bequest from Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her husband. Lucins W. Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal...