Word: burningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thieu's administration to rule. Students demonstrated briefly but were quickly contained by police. Thich Tri Quang, South Viet Nam's most troublesome monk, declared a hunger strike beneath his tree opposite Independence Palace. His Buddhist followers announced that 110 monks and nuns were ready to burn themselves alive and that 1,000 would march to Independence Palace early this week. The disorders may be embarrassing to Thieu, but they so far have not amounted to any real challenge to his government...
During Monday's service, draft resistors will be called on to hand in their cards at the altar to members of the clergy. Those who wish to burn their cards may do so with an altar candle, Ferber said. Otherwise, the cards will be taken to Washington where Dr. Benjamin Spock and Resistance members will hand the cards to the Justice Department. The cards will be handed in on Friday, Oct. 20, with an expected 2000 from around the nation...
...style rioting as deplorable, they are willing to use the threat of violence to gain their campus goals. At no school has that threat proved more effective than at California's San Jose State College (enrollment: 23,000), where a mere 60 Negro students last month threatened to burn the campus down unless discrimination against them was stopped. The students' leader, Sociology Teacher Harry Edwards, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) former San Jose basketball star, contended that Negro students could not find decent housing in San Jose, Negro athletes on road trips were assigned rooms by race...
Grand Prix drivers like to talk about the rubber they burn when drifting through a chicane. A steeplechase rider will verbally rebreak every bone in his body at the drop of a crop. But none of those dangers can hold a Band-Aid to the ones experienced routinely by the madmen of sporting masochism: racing pilots. Whipping airplanes around pylons mere yards above the deck is a sport so risky that it all but disappeared from the U.S. scene after famed Flyer Bill Odom crashed to his death in 1949. Since 1964 it has come roaring back...
Died. Charles W. Morton, 68, humorist and editor; of a heart attack; in London. Creator of the Atlantic's "Accent" column, Morton specialized for 26 years in the slow, cerebral burn with which he seared pampered child stars, jargon-jawed sociologists, and the fractional fantasies of statisticians...