Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly before his election last fall, Prime Minister Harold Wilson was asked what would happen if Labor won by a tiny majority. "We won't discuss nightmares like that," he snapped. The nightmare came true, and it has had Labor strategists tossing in their sleep ever since. Last week there was more reason than ever for restless nights, for Labor's three-vote margin in Parliament was trimmed to two by the death of Labor M.P. Norman Dodds...
...Fred Shuttlesworth, 43, for years a top deputy to Martin Luther King, is an old hand at organizing nonviolent demonstrations. But he isn't quite so skilled at dispersing them-at least when they happen in his own church. Last week, for the second Sunday in a row, Cincinnati police were called out because of disorders during the services at Shuttlesworth's all-Negro Revelation Baptist Church. The troublemakers were not marauding whites, but a "Freedom Committee" of dissident church members who object to Shuttlesworth's "dictatorial" ways...
...alone. Richard was yelling, 'Water, water, water' and rolling around on the ground. I tried to hold him still. There were about ten white people in front of the store. They told me that if I did not get out of there, the same thing would happen...
...when the difference between a Marr and a Jack Nicklaus is only a couple of strokes every 72 holes, accidents are bound to happen. One happened last week−and it was almost more than Dave could stand. He cried when they gave him a diamond-studded medal and the winner's check of $25,-000. "Some guys expect to win," he said. "But I never knew that I could...
...into extra innings it went. "The same thing is going to happen again," moaned Maloney. In the top of the tenth, Cincinnati Shortstop Leo Cardenas finally hit a home run, to make it 1-0. Then the Cubs came to bat. Jim walked the first man he faced. Then he bore down. Billy Williams flied out, Ernie Banks bounced into a double play, and whooping, dancing Reds mobbed their hero on the mound. "Now that I've finally won one of these," said Maloney, "I'm confident I can do it again...