Word: firebrands
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...chief of a prestigious newspaper goes to the funeral of a one-time presidential contender. A series of flashbacks and anecdotes develop the relationship between the bureau chief (an old Southern boy who bears a more than passing resemblance to Wicker himself) and the presidential contender (once a young firebrand from the same state as the bureau chief, who in his later years retired on the job in the Senate...
...modern four-block complex to be built only two blocks from the dilapidated S.C.L.C. headquarters on Auburn Avenue, the center is expected to cost over $6,000,000. Abernathy said Mrs. King had been unwilling to share funds with his strapped civil rights organization. King's onetime firebrand protégé, Hosea Williams, criticized her for not sharing $67,000 raised earlier this year at an Atlanta benefit concert featuring Flip Wilson and José Feliciano and recorded by RCA Records, with a $50,000 advance to the King Center...
Aggravating the conflict was the arrest Friday of AIM Firebrand Russell Means in Los Angeles. Means faces eleven counts on various charges in connection with the takeover. When a Deadwood, S. Dak. court caught Means in a technicality relating to the filing of his $25,000 bond, Judge Andrew W. Bogue revoked the bond, and a warrant was issued for Means' arrest...
...nadir came in 1958, when Pearson, newly named as leader of Canada's Liberal Party, lost an election to a Tory firebrand prairie lawyer named John Diefenbaker by the most lopsided margin in Canadian history. It was the first of four elections in a decade-long political duel between Mike and Dief. Pearson's liberals finally won more seats than Diefenbaker's conservatives in 1963, but for the next five years, Pearson's Cabinet seemed to lurch from one headline-making crisis to another. He survived each potential disaster, largely by leaving his ministers to fight...
...such a group being able to schedule more than one meeting every other month, there is some ominous writing on the wall for the Shareholder 15. Like its predecessors which "involved" students in the decision-making process, this nebulous advisory body is earmarked for oblivion. Unless Bok consciously picks firebrand members to insure the committee's aggressiveness, the Shareholder 15 will likely sputter in the shadow of its Corporation companion...