Word: gan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After that, Chicago newspapers be gan to tone down their stories of local racial incidents. In 1955 the City News Bureau spelled out its own policy, which has been taken over as an informal code by the mass media in the city. The code calls for responsible treatment of stories, brevity, the absence of superlatives or inflammatory adjectives, and warns reporters to avoid use of the word riot. "If riots actually occur," says the code, "we should be in a position that no charge of riot incitement can be placed against us." Radio and TV stations, which tend to make...
...whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming. But most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland Kirk, who meshes a thrumming beat, a fer tile imagination and an impish humor to achieve an exciting union of the pa gan and the modern spirit - as if Pan were suddenly found piping merrily in a rush-hour subway...
...riot was the latest flare-up in a seven-week general strike against Ja-gan's high-handed Communist-oriented regime. In April, Jagan introduced a bill in the legislature that would have empowered the government to "supervise" all union elections. Considering the bill a naked attempt to grab control of the country's labor movement, the powerful Trades Union Council called its 50,000 members out on strike. The bauxite mines and sugar mills closed down; so did the docks, railroads and airports. Hardly a store remained open. In the emergency, British technicians arrived to run essential...
Anti-Jagan dock workers recently stoned and burned her car; luckily for Janet Ja gan, she was not inside at the time. Even the regime's moderate opponents blame her for much of what Cheddi does. "It's all Janet's fault that Cheddi's the way he is," says one adversary...
...Wolfgang decided to take part time off from business to form his own or gan group, determined to bring the clean, cold, clear sound of the 18th century baroque organ to 20th century ears. Von Karajan's basic ensemble consists of three organs, fitted out with 6-ft.-high wood and metal pipes, and Wolfgang plays one of them himself. When necessary, Wolfgang and his associates are joined by flutists, oboists, violinists and viola players who trail behind the furniture van in a chauffeur-driven station wagon. Wandering from town to town, playing for anybody, the group has worked...