Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flashed from Peking within an hour after the U.N. General Assembly convened. For all Peking's bluster, however, the Chinese are obviously too far removed from the Middle East to interfere. Since they set off their first A-bomb on Oct. 16, 1964, they have been unable to gain any diplomatic leverage from their nuclear capacity. The U.S. has been expecting the Chinese to go H ever since last fall. American experts detected traces of enriched uranium in the fallout of China's third and fifth A-bomb explosions-clues that it was developing nuclear triggers...
...minutes later, Levi Castillo burst into the Assembly chamber and, as the clerk droned on through the list, laid two sticks of dynamite on his own desk. Then he took out a revolver, which he fired once into the floor to gain attention. Slowly he raised the revolver to hip level, aiming at the dynamite. "Ever since I was a boy," Levi Castillo remembers, "I've had this dream of causing a large crowd to leave a large chamber in a hurry." At last his dream was realized. The Deputies poured out the chamber's four doors like...
...events of the weekend may prove to have been a turning point in Roxbury's history. The people have developed a new awareness, and as their problems seem more immediate, they have discovered a new tool with which to gain their goals--violence. Just as the threat of rioting wrong promises from the city government last year, this year's violence has already sparked concessions by the police and an announcement by Mayor Collins that he will review the practices of the Welfare Office...
...appealing simultaneously to the two exploited classes it seeks to organize. If past projects in labor union organizing are any guide, SDS will organize the working class around bread and butter issues--steady jobs, higher wages and better working conditions. It will urge laborers to join unions and gain power over their employers as a means to increases in material welfare and higher standards of consumption. The power it urges the new working class to achieve will depend on very different values. The enemy will be the same corporate elite and the exploitive bureaucratic structure, but decisions will relate much...
...planning students formed the Harvard Association of Planners (HAP) in March of 1967. They specifically wanted to gain representation on important faculty committees. It seemed clear that students could contribute to the Building Committee's planning for the Design School's new center. Students also wanted to be able to express their opinion on crucial curriculum and requirement changes which the Department often seemed to spring on them. A constitution for the group was approved by the planning students in March, a discussion series held by the HAP became a popular success, and Dean Sert granted permission for two students...