Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, the four participating schools did not make a strong and shared commitment to CP3. As Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the School of Education says, "Ironically, as CP3 achieved four-school status, it became isolated from all four schools." The crowning blow was a bitter dispute between students and teachers over the amount of power students should have in making policy...
Since he was deposed in 1970 by Marshal Lon Not, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk has lived in exile in China but has never surrendered his claim to be his country's rightful chief of state. At 50, Sihanouk is still ebullient, charming and volatile-and increasingly bitter against the U.S., which he thinks is destroying his country. Last week, before flying off on a month-long visit to nine African and Eastern European countries, Sihanouk sat down in Peking for an interview with TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold Schecter. His main points...
...Bougainville islands during World War II; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. A quiet, courtly Virginian, Vandegrift directed the first U.S. land offensive against the Japanese when he led the 1st Marine Division onto Guadalcanal in August 1942. For three months his outnumbered men held their ground through bitter jungle fighting before reinforcements arrived, and for his leadership Vandegrift was awarded the Navy Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. The first active four-star general in Marine history, he served four years as Marine Corps Commandant before retiring...
...road workers in Garrett County, Md., won recognition for their A.F.S.C.M.E. local only after striking the state highway department for 365 days, one of the longest public service strikes in U.S. history. Some 1,300 mostly black garbage men in Memphis got their local recognized in 1968 after a bitter 65-day walkout that indirectly precipitated the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; he was shot there while rallying support for the strike...
Tatum's childhood has been more gothic than glamorous. Her mother, Actress Joanna Moore, and O'Neal are divorced, and waged bitter custody fights over Tatum and her brother Griffin, 8. For several years the children lived a hippie existence with their mother on a California ranch. O'Neal charged that his former wife was using drugs and not properly supervising the children. The parents came to an agreement in 1971, and Ryan took Tatum while the mother kept Griffin. When Director Peter Bogdanovich suggested that O'Neal and Tatum costar, O'Neal leaped...