Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Griggs also recalls Kenyatta giving speeches in three languages: "He would lead off in deep, booming English for the whites, talking of how Kenyans should not resent foreigners but understand that they were in Kenya to help blacks develop...
Such an effort would also be in the spirit of the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
...strolled so casually toward their getaway car that the tower guard assumed they were departing visitors. But on the next day the fugitives' car had a flat tire. Marine Sergeant John F. Lyons, 24, heading from his home in Yuma, Ariz., to visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...
...seven men who comprise the Harvard Corporation finished drawing up their position in the old President's House and walked outside, they could not help but feel a little nervous, for less than 100 feet away more than 1000 students were holding an anti-apartheid rally. In the hope of taking the steam out of the protests, the Corporation decided to delay releasing its decision for two days. Despite the delay, the release of the decision rejecting student demands for divestiture set the stage for the largest student demonstration at Harvard in five years as more than 3000 students participated...
...Confi-Guide also features advice on concentrations, libraries, where to get help, freshman seminars, who Harvard's best and worst lecturers are and what the new core plan is all about. All this and more with pictures. Harvard's best and worst lecturers are and what the new Core plan is all about. All this and more with pictures, cartoons, and articles from nearly a hundred students...