Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room anp space to space, things and people converge around her. Possessions flow from person to person getting broken and lost as they move, a letter comes from abroad and has its stamp ripped off before the addressee sees it, daily events like meals and the arrival of Gordon linen march blindly on, compulsory dorm meetings are held, toilets flushed, people talk. The individual girl has no control over events or time, can start or stop nothing, feels no responsiveness from her world. The stage has no exists...
...After SDS had voted to support a Teamsters' Union strike against Gordon Linen, 40 SDS members and sympathizers unloaded packages of line from an HSA truck trying to make linen deliveries at Dunster House. Several students also jostled an HSA representative in the Dunster House courtyard. Cambridge police began preparing criminal complaints against students allegedly involved in the incidents...
Located astride the headwaters of the Nile River, the Sudan is rich in history but little else. It was the home of the dervishes who defeated and put to death Britain's General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon in 1885, and who were in turn defeated by a punitive expedition under General Herbert Kitchener. Until 1956, the Sudan was nominally ruled by Britain and Egypt. Then it asserted independence and took possession of the largest land area of any African nation. Independence brought a bitter civil conflict, now 13 years old, between the 10 million Arabs of the north...
...Khartoum haboob. In the early morning, telephone and cable lines were cut, troop carriers rolled across the White Nile bridge and along Palace Avenue. Tanks took up positions at the front gates of the Republican Palace, built on the site and in the mold of the palace where General Gordon was slain. By morning, a new government was installed, one that conforms more closely to the modern Arab pattern of army-backed leftist regimes, and dedicated to the struggle against Israel...
...Fielding's guide is a kind of Bible to us," says Montreal Businessman Gordon Mills, 53, who, with his wife Isabel, is currently winding up a month-long European vacation. "Right from the start it made things easier?things like tipping on the ship coming over. It helped us fit in much quicker." On Fielding's recommendation, Mrs. Mills shopped at Liberty's for a tweed suit, at Marks & Spencer for sweaters and lingerie, at Harrods for a 220-volt adapter for their traveling steam iron?"He says you can get anything at Harrods." They ate dinner at the Elizabethan...