Word: chieftains
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...Karenga, abrasive boss of "US," a black nationalist outfit, supported the "Committee for Operational Unity," which had cooled the ghetto the week before. The time was not right for revolution, argued Maulana (meaning teacher) Ron, urging that "differences between bloods" be forgotten. Harlem's Charles Kenyatta, a chieftain of the American Mau Mau, preached in favor of racial peace and praised Mayor John Lindsay's casual walking tours among ghetto dwellers: "They want to feel that someone is concerned, and he goes out and reads people's faces...
...explosion was as senseless as it was inevitable, once King took his 4,500 marchers onto historic Beale Street. A band of young Negroes called the Invaders had been waiting for the event. "We been making plans to tear this town up for a long time," an Invader chieftain told TIME'S Atlanta Bureau Chief Roger Williams. "We didn't dare do it on our own. We needed a crowd. We knew he'd turn out a crowd, and with a crowd the cops would have a hard time laying hands on us." One hundred strong...
...pulled one car full of passengers into a shed where, with the help of films and sound effects, they convinced the passengers that there had been a wreck. In another, they saved the day by starting an earthquake with supersonic waves. This week, they unnerved a murder-for-hire chieftain by making him believe in ghosts; first by projecting a likeness of Phelps's face into a cloud of carbon dioxide in a darkened room, then by propping up the unconscious body of one of the killer's underlings and using a face mask-a favorite IMF ploy...
...name of all the past and present editors of the Partisan Review did Jack Kerouac, cult leader of post-World War II intellectual vagrants, ever attain standing as a member (let alone chieftain) of the avantgarde? Vanity of Duluoz, his best book, is a picaresque novel in a tradition as old as Tristram Shandy and about as avant-garde as Laurence Sterne-a man in holy orders, puckish though...
...charges grew out of a long-winded report delivered before the Central Committee by Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother and the chief of Cuba's armed forces and internal security. Named as the conspiracy's ringleader was Anibal Escalante, 59, a onetime party chieftain who fell from favor in 1962 for his pro-Soviet views but was later allowed to return to Cuba after a two-year exile in Prague. This time, said Raúl, Escalante had organized an anti-Castro movement that extended into several key government ministries, the University of Havana...