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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along the line of retreat. Some of the food was given away, but quite a few villagers were seen sporting new T shirts or shoes. There was a holiday air about the retreat. Even the missionaries who travel these roads to bring eagerly awaited medicine and food never got this kind of reception...
...since Tokyo's support of U.S. policy in Viet Nam provoked violent demonstrations in the 1960s has an issue so inflamed and coalesced the Japanese radical movement. Beginning in 1967, when the project got under way, there have been 56 major riots and demonstrations, five deaths, 8,100 injuries and 1,900 arrests. The first protests occurred when a group of farmers holding acreage needed for the airport refused to sell and the government confiscated their land. That highhandedness, though achieved through legal channels, caused a storm of protest and quickly brought the youthful rebels to the farmers...
...servants like Henry Stimson and George Bush. Yale, the Los Angeles Times and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are all headed by Andover graduates. Other alumni include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tarzan Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Actor Jack Lemmon. Humphrey Bogart never got his diploma; he was kicked out in 1918 for "incontrollably high spirits...
...clergy, was not so sure. Two years ago, it asked the 2.6 million-member United Presbyterian Church for "definitive guidance" on ordaining homosexuals. That led in turn to the most thorough study of the issue ever undertaken by a major church. Last week in San Diego the New Yorkers got their guidance: 651 General Assembly delegates pronounced a resounding no to acceptance of openly homosexual clergy and lay officers...
...same ebullience. "There isn't a dead bar in his music," says Richard Maltby Jr. "Every one has a joke in it. He wrote the wittiest songs I've ever heard." Besides the title song, Waller's hits include Honeysuckle Rose, I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, The Joint Is Jumpin 'and Lookin' Good but Feelin...