Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen throwing stones at Chinese civilians and turning wall poster Mao portraits upside down. The Red Guards have sacked virtually all of the Peking-trained Tibetan civil servants for "regional nationalism." Says the Dalai Lama: "There is so much chaos now that it is definite that a change must come about. The Tibetan people may yet get an opportunity to throw off the yoke of oppression." That was probably wishful thinking, especially if the Maoists have indeed succeeded in bringing their own factions to a truce in ravished Tibet...
...More Lock Step. There will also be more students than ever before. Mayhew argues that all educators will come to recognize that a balanced, liberal arts college education can be absorbed by and helpful to almost everyone, provided that the pressures of grading and lock-step progress are eased. Instead of flunking out, students will be able to stay with a subject until they master it. Mayhew may be overly sanguine in predicting that by 1980 "parents will have accepted the fact that childhood or youth will have extended to 30 to 35 years of age." But with increased life...
...Nonsense, snorted Schlumberger; the sum was only in six figures. And if 1,200 seemed a large guest list, Mme. Schlumberger could only protest that she originally intended having 800 for the housewarming. But, she added, "people from all over the world begged on their knees to come." Naturally, she could not refuse...
...Pone raced to New Cassel. Outside the laundry room with the police lay Mitchell's common-law wife on a stretcher. He had shot both her and her brother after an argument. Mitchell ignored the wounded woman's pleas to come out and give up the child. Then Pone took over. Pone used Negro psychology-sociology to make his case to Mitchell, also a Negro...
...century's most shocking assassinations. He was so important that the state sought to do everything-even keep him a prisoner-to protect him against harm from possible accomplices in the killing. At first, Stephens willingly moved into Shelby County jail, where he was free to come and go but was accompanied by a bodyguard. He was away too often to suit police. Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that provides for confinement of material witnesses, and imprisoned Stephens in July. In setting bail...