Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signature on the head-chopping telegram was that of Bernard Salumu, a moody, fast-talking 31-year-old Communist sympathizer who once had been Lumumba's private secretary, now found himself in complete control of Eastern Province, which he proceeded to declare independent last week. Weeks ago Lumumba sent Salumu to Stanleyville to set the stage for a new Lumumba-run capital in competition with Leopoldville. Salumu dealt harshly with Lumumba's foes. When eleven anti-Lumumba members of the Congo's Parliament flew back to oppose the regime in Stanleyville, Salumu's men grabbed them...
...from an artist who has been assessed as a leftist. There seem, however, to be two types of leftists seeking recognition in our non-leftist society. The first seeks to comment on the society along inoffensive, or at least familiarly offensive lines (witness Mort Sahl, or more significantly, George Bernard Shaw). The other type, which includes men like Seeger and Charlie Chaplin, issue more fundamental challenges to our present values...
...Life. Perez hopped into parish politics right after he got out of Tulane Law School in 1914. At 27 he was a district judge, in 1924 became district attorney for Plaquemines and neighboring St. Bernard's Parish-a position he gave up only this week, having airily announced that his son, Leander Jr., would take over the job. But lest anyone get the idea that he was retiring, Perez explained: "I intend to remain as assistant district attorney. The state constitution provides that the assistant district attorney has all the powers of the district attorney...
...although he has seen to it that schools in St. Bernard's Parish have opened their classrooms to white "refugees" from New Orleans, the battle against integration is going against Leander Perez. Some Louisiana newsmen be lieve that his influence is waning. But those who know him best think he is just waiting for his next move. "I always take the offensive," Leander Perez once said, daintily flicking an ash from his omnipresent cigar. "The defensive ain't worth a damn...
Despite disappointments arising from increased economic and servicing pressures, the University did acquire several major additions. Included in the acquisitions was Bernard Berenson's bequest of I Tatti, his villa near Florence. With his gift came a collection of more than 50,000 books and perhaps 300,000 photographs which he had assembled there...