Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professorial elders. Mark Rudd is a B +average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba earlier this year), has tutored youngsters in Harlem in his spare time...
Back in 1927, the same year that Charles Lindbergh made his heroic solo flight across the Atlantic, a young Yale University graduate named Juan Terry Trippe founded a modest air service that shuttled mail between Florida and Cuba. Both events have loomed large in the history of aviation. Lindbergh's flight pointed up aviation's expanding potential, and Trippe's little business eventually grew into Pan American World Airways, the world's largest international airline. Last week in Manhattan, when Trippe, now 68, finally bowed out as Pan Am's boss, it seemed altogether fitting...
...S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which he was put on disciplinary probation), and recently returned from a three-week visit to Communist Cuba, which he glowingly described as an "extremely humanistic society...
...Washington to collect information relating to U.S. military and scientific matters, including U.S. deployment of ICBMs. When De Vosjoli argued that this course was foolhardy, he was upbraided by his superiors for having played a considerable part in helping the U.S. discover the presence of Russian offensive missiles in Cuba. Alarmed by Paris' new attitude toward the U.S., De Vosjoli resigned his post in disgust...
...speech sponsored by the M.I.T. student body, Ali-who used to be known as Cassius Clay-pointed out that the American black man feels he has no stake in America as it exists today. "Cubans come from Cuba; Chinese from China; and Israelis come from Israel. But what about the 'Negro?'" he asked. "Most Black people just haven't been taught to appreciate themselves...