Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brother Jeff. Cool it was. In Grenada (pop. 7,914), a white supremacist stronghold that hitherto had been thought to be too tough for civil rights workers to crack, the Governor's dic tum received its clearest vindication. "We want Brother Jefferson Davis to know that the South he represented will never rise again," proclaimed Robert Green, 32, a march leader, as he stood astride the Davis memorial in the town square. "We want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With...
There were signs last week that it may eventually be the Buddhists who crack. Everything else having failed, Buddhist Ringleader Thich Tri Quang went on a hunger strike, by week's end had lapsed into a near coma that at least served the purpose of keeping him quiet. Thich Tam Chau, spokesman of the Buddhist hierarchy's moderate wing, publicly broke with Tri Quang and the militants. Tri Quang, said Tam Chau, has "no authority to promulgate any decisions" of the hierarchy, adding, "I am not for bringing Buddha into the streets." And in a swift, virtually bloodless...
Sinister Green Thumb. At 45, Amália has been the queen of fado for more than 20 years. But she is a vagabond queen, rationing her performances at home to tour the world. In Lisbon, variety-show comics crack that Portugal has everything that the rest of the world has-except Amália. "The Portuguese are jealous lovers," says Amália. "They say that I drink, that I am a spy, that I work for the secret police, that I sing only for ministers." Actually, her most sinister possession is a green thumb, with which she tends...
...Indefensible." At week's end, as the Air Force convened a 62-member board of inquiry, few thought that Walker could have carelessly rammed the bomber; there was speculation that turbulence or the B-70's backwash may have caused the collision. But the circumstances surrounding the crack-up raised other questions. Though it is standard procedure for manufacturers of Air Force equipment to take pictures of their craft in flight, both for publicity and research purposes, even Pentagon officials conceded that last week's spectacular line-up was hardly standard...
...supervision. On the other hand, no responsible authority wants to stop research into the potentially vast possibilities of LSD and other "mind drugs." New substances are already forecast, notably a "smart pill," derived from RNA, to speed up the learning process; this has given rise to the slightly uneasy crack that in a few years "people won't ask you what books you're reading, but what drugs you're taking." Some of the drugs may be bubbling even now in the retorts of Dr. Hofmann, who was back in the Basel lab last week after receiving...