Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marvelous job of integrating budding student politicos into its ranks. Certainly the Far Left are a sad procession of ghosts on English campuses, and many university student unions are now run by Conservative students elected on 50-60 per cent campus-wide ballots. But the sense of decency and "fair play" can still stir sizeable student numbers to protest--two recent examples being demonstrations against university investments in South Africa (Harvard and the Kennedy School, take note!), and greatly increased overseas students fees...
Bending to U.S. and British pressure, Smith and the black council members accepted an American-proposed agenda for talks that would have five basic objectives. They are: 1) provisions for holding free and fair elections; 2) cease-fire arrangements; 3) agreement on a transitional administration to guide Rhodesia to true independence and majority rule; 4) the formation of a single army to serve Zimbabwe (the black nationalists' name for Rhodesia); and 5) a constitution that, among its basic principles, includes guarantees of individual rights...
...heart of a lady fair? Be her bodyguard, or so two famous young ladies would attest. Susan Ford, 21, freelance photographer and only daughter of former President Gerald and Betty Ford, plans to marry Charles Frederick Vance, 37, a Secret Service agent and divorcee who met his future bride in June 1977 when assigned to a year's duty as a guard for the Ford family. Patty Hearst, 24, still in jail for bank robbery, is planning to marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a San Francisco cop who was one of her bodyguards when she was free on bail last...
Never mind, bankable is bankable, so Ross, straining hard to seem as naive as her little dog Toto, is blown by a snowstorm to Munchkin land. This turns out to be the old New York World's Fair Pavilion at Flushing Meadow, where the Wicked Witch of the East has turned hundreds of juvenile spray-paint vandals into graffiti figures. The yellow brick road leads across the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, where Richard Pryor reigns as the Wiz. But before Dorothy gets there, she meets a roarious but cowardly lion (Ted Ross) and a marvelous scarecrow...
Freidel said in his years as chairman of the department of History, Gilmore remained "exceedingly fair, with never a harsh word no matter what the crisis...