Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such quarrelsome words usually lead straight to trouble, and that is just what was brewing last week in Africa's most populous nation. For months Nigeria has teetered on the edge of civil war, its fate hinging on relations between two young, untested leaders. Colonel Ojukwu, 33, governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, afraid of a repeat of recent massacres of his fellow Ibo tribesmen, is demanding more legal autonomy from the central military government headed by Colonel Gowon, 32. Ojukwu vows to seize more autonomy whether Gowon approves or not-and last week he took a step...
...father-and the fathers before him, afflicted with czarist terrors and pogroms-endure? Not merely endure, but possess the heart and the will to make "something that extends further than time, that weighs more than fate"? Those fathers were better men than he, the narrator says. Divorced, he reflects that his own children "are left to find their own security and their own definitions of success, as my father did, out of the indecision and cripplings which fate has given them. Fair enough; they are back in history, true to their fathers...
...Club Bedroom, Auchincloss illustrates the dreadful fate that awaits a poor working girl who marries into a top family, and who expects kith, kin or anyone else to respect her unspeakable class predicament. She loses her room at the woman's club. A Harvard-Yardley soap opera...
...fate of these courses threatens to make Faculty members reluctant to offer similar courses in the future, according to Edward T. Wilcox, director of the Program of General Education...
...Activists. Whatever Martin's fate, though, the style of the Federal Reserve Board's seven-man board of governors has already undergone radical change. Elm logs still crackle in the fireplaces inside the Federal Reserve Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue; lights go off and doors are locked at 5:30 p.m. The physical pace remains leisurely enough to allow Martin, long since recovered from the surgery that hospitalized him last year, to resume his habitual afternoon tennis game. But in contrast to the cloistered detachment of the governors of the '50s, today's board...