Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Messiah in a Bathrobe. In the dark, Jeeps began circling the Blantyre bungalow of Dr. Hastings Banda, Congress President and self-styled "extremist of extremists," who has been leading the campaign against federation on the grounds that once the federation becomes independent, Nyasaland will be dominated by the apartheid-minded white minority of Southern Rhodesia. Scores of his followers, who regard him as their Messiah, gathered around to protect his house, but tear gas quickly dispersed them. Wrapped in a bathrobe, Dr. Banda was whisked to an airport and flown into exile in Southern Rhodesia...
...Veritas Foundation is, however, entitled to present its case to the Alumni and the Administration. Members of the foundation have stated that they do not wish to hurt the Program for Harvard College, either as a tactic or as a contingent result of their campaign. Yet even allowing that they may consider the urgency of their appeal more imperative than the success of the Program, their sincertiy about not wishing to hurt the Program is open to question when they solicit for their own fund drive...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 10--The man who wanted to abolish intercollegiate football at Brown University survived his debate against the athletic department tonight, but announced the end of his one-man campaign...
...president's office of every union. At any rate, by the timely employment of criminal methods, ranging from the well-known bite to a mass snatch of the voting opposition, the hero wins the presidency of the local. Whereupon, in order to make good on his blithe campaign promise of a new union hall, complete with a bar and a bowling alley, he hijacks a crate of watches worth $750,000 and fences them out to big jewelry firms...
...Freshman hockey team went down to its first Ivy League defeat of the season Saturday in New Haven, as the Yale sextet pulled out a 4-3 overtime victory. Although the Yardlings finished their campaign with a fine 18-3 overall record, the Bulldogs edged them in the unofficial Ivy standings with a 3-0 slate...