Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chilean military−notably the navy−has a reputation for maintaining stern, even brutal discipline. That may not bode too well for the immediate future, since General Pinochet is a tough and energetic commander, as well as a stickler for army regulations. Born in Valparaiso−Allende's home town−Pinochet (pronounced pee-no-chet) entered the army's military academy at the age of 18. He has been to the U.S. Southern Command in the Panama Canal Zone several times, and in 1956 served as military attache to the Chilean embassy in Washington. Although...
...Spring 1969. President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey decided to defy the Faculty's overwhelming anti-ROTC vote. The consequences included a building occupation and a brutal police bust leading to 250 arrests and dozens of injuries...
...presumed fait accompli came under attack from Radcliffe alumnae who opposed their alma mater's dissolution. And Harvard stalwarts came forward to reiterate the long-standing reasons for their skepticism. Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, subtly summed it all up: "The most brutal formulation of the problem is that merger might mean achieving sexual diversity at the expense of other kinds of diversity...
...Spring 1969, President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey decided to defy the Faculty's overwhelming anti-ROTC vote. The consequences included a building occupation and a brutal police bust leading to 250 arrests and dozens of injuries...
...brutal pace? Of course. But to Billie Jean, now 29, perpetual motion is what life is all about. Her career has been one headlong rush, though as tennis champs go she started late-at age eleven. She was a tomboy who played Softball with the fellas in Long Beach, Calif. Sport, she realized, was her thing, but the demand for female shortstops was limited. Her father, a fireman, suggested that she choose tennis, swimming or golf, and she squandered $8 on a purple racket with a velvet grip. After her first day on the courts she told her mother that...