Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rabbits Long Enough." In Prague's Old Town Square, students organized the most anti-Communist rally yet of the four-month-old "socialist renaissance." Assembling at the statue of the 15th century reformist theologian Jan Hus, thousands of people heard speakers call upon Dubček to permit opposition political parties and to rid the government of old-line party men who still hold office. "We have been rabbits long enough!" shouted Engineering Student Josef Vavelda. "We hear we should be grateful to the Communist Party," said another speaker. "Yes, we are very grateful for inadequate housing, grateful...
Joseph Rizor, 40, a carpenter from Salinas, Calif., became the second heart-transplant subject for Stanford University's pioneering Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. The victim of three heart attacks within seven years, Rizor had been longing for a transplant since he heard of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard's first operation in Cape Town last December. "At first," says his wife Eileen, "I was shocked by the idea. But time and the knowledge of how desperately my husband wanted the operation made me realize that it might be his only chance to live." When a brain-injured donor...
...into vans, unsympathetic students applauded, demanded: "More police! More police!" Among those booked at precinct stations that morning were a surprisingly large sprinkling of students from other campuses, nearby high schools, and even from no schools at all..They were all released on bail, and their cases will be heard in June...
...things cheer shareholders like a stock split, and last week few share holders were as cheery as IBM's. At their annual meeting in Boston, 2,300 of the faithful (of a 359,495 total) heard Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. announce stockholder approval of the eleventh split in the company's 57 years...
When Springfielders heard about McNamara's order three years ago, armory employees raised a $10,000 fund to lobby against the Pentagon decision...