Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gument was touched off by charges that the all-white University of Alabama delegation was unrepresentative and, in hopeless parliamentary confusion, a Negro Alabama student was seated, unseated, then reseated. Other wholly white delegations caught the spirit and issued challenges to their own credentials. Demonstrators, pretending to be a chain gang, beat themselves with belts and chanted: "Oh, it hurts so good, I don't want to do anything about it. But I like to talk about it." Lost in the con fusion was a motion to declare the whole congress unaccredited and send everyone home...
...flair for showmanship that has been emulated by some of the biggest names in U.S. retailing. Still, the showcase downtown store is only one part of the fast-growing Dayton Corp., which by the end of 1968 will include ten other department stores, eleven discount outlets and a chain of 27 bookshops...
...massacres "as a sign of mourning." He sleeps from dawn to midmorning, lives and works in his tightly guarded Umuahia villa. He evacuated his wife Njide-ka and two small children after a bomb was dropped near his home. Slouched at his desk, pacing the grounds impatiently in darkness, chain-smoking State Express filter cigarettes, he is a lonely figure in his besieged land. Ojukwu often is pictured in Nigerian propaganda as a power-mad Hitler. In fact, he runs Biafra as a wartime democracy, frequently seeking the advice of his consultative assembly of Ibo elders. Biafra also...
...skilled political infighter, Ulbricht has been doing all that he can to avoid such a chain of events. At first, he favored the overthrow of Dubcek's regime. But the Soviet accommodation at Cierna and Bratislava undoubtedly impressed upon Ulbricht the fact that his Eastern European neighbors no longer buckle under the way they used to. As a result, Ulbricht has embarked on a series of dramatic political maneuvers that have left diplomats in Europe wondering what he will do next...
...name of the program is Night Call, and it is carried live (11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., E.D.T.) five evenings a week on an ad hoc chain that has grown from 21 to 57 radio stations in less than three months. Listeners anywhere may phone collect (Area Code 212: 749-3311) and argue racial issues with an influential national figure who is guest of the night, say James Baldwin, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Muhammad All, Sargent Shriver or Arthur Miller...