Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearing the Loeb name (they are owned by the mayor's brother). "I am not in favor of violence," said the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., an erudite militant who leads much of the Negro struggle. But "if I were inclined to advocate burning, it would be in East Memphis [where the mayor lives]-I think we've had enough talk of this burning down our own neighborhoods...
Somalia not only produces fine leopard skins but the bulk of the world's frankincense and myrrh. That about takes care of its distinctions. Hardly more than a stretch of East African desert, the country is sun-scorched and poor and was, until recently, hopeless as well. At last, though, someone in Somalia has decided to do something about the country's parlous state. Premier Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, 39, who took office only nine months ago, has created the most hopeful atmosphere since Somalia won independence in 1960 simply by facing up to problems that everyone else...
...that Somali tribesmen have waged for years over disputed land with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. He has dismissed 3,000 troops from his 11,000-man army and put the rest to work part-time clearing land and building roads. He has asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with his Arab neighbors to the north. "Look," says Egal, in what must rank among the most candid statements ever made by a government...
...longtime ballet buff, invited the company to her 49-room ocean-front mansion in Watch Hill, R.I., to initiate a summer dance workshop. Lady Bountiful they called her, and so it seemed during the next two years when she helped finance the successful Jeffrey tours of the Near East and Russia. As time went on, however, Lady Bountiful began to seem more like Lady Macbeth to Jeffrey. She wanted more say in artistic matters and insisted on changing the company's name to her own. Jeffrey refused, and so they parted. Broke and unable to offer his danc...
...statement was signed by Jerome A. Cohen, professor of Law, John K. Fairbank, Director of the East Asian Research Center, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., assistant professor of History. It appears in the New York Times today...