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Coups have become the rule rather than the exception in populous Nigeria, which is divided into four rival regions and torn by tribal competition. In 1966 alone, two rulers have been murdered, along with countless of their countrymen, in bloody riots and slaughters. When Army Boss Yakubu Gowon, 31, seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Grisly Record | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Fearsome Roar. It has been many long and cheerless months since jazz buffs last heard a performer as fresh and as talented as Handy. He arrives at a time when jazz's discontented Young Turks have disdainfully turned away from their audiences and gone off to explore the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Man With a Brain | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

But even more important for discontented undergraduates is the set of recommendations the committee presented for giving students a greater role in academic policy-making. Muscatine and his group reached a careful compromise: they rejected the inclusion of students on faculty committees--pointing out quite correctly that not even inexperienced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reform at Berkeley | 3/23/1966 | See Source »

When several history tutors in Winthrop House began talking last Spring about changing the Department's honors program and tutorial, they found they were discontented for different reasons. One faction wanted to make the honors program smaller and more selective by weeding out those seniors who had little to gain...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: History Thesis Reform Flickers and Dies | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

The youth of Britain and France have the same blue-jeaned bottoms and fright-wig haircuts as their U.S. contemporaries, and they dig the same big beat and atonal balladry. Still, the Teen-Age International is largely confined to matters of style; underneath, European youth today seems less discontented and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON NOT LOSING ONE'S COOL ABOUT THE YOUNG | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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