Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Norman Washington Manley, 76, former Prime Minister of Jamaica; of a heart attack; in Kingston. As founder of the People's National Party in 1938, then as the island's top executive from 1955 to 1962, Oxford-educated Manley played a primary role in Jamaica's...
"I hate to see the judicial process used for extrajudicial ends," says Victor Earle of New York City, one of the lawyers who argued the historic Miranda case before the Supreme Court. He was referring in part to the generally held view that Dinis' intention may be to enhance...
Dr. Christiaan Barnard's-and the world's-first patient to receive a transplanted human heart, Louis Washkansky, lived for only 18 days after his historic operation. But Barnard's second transplant recipient, Dentist Philip Blaiberg, recovered fully, wrote a book about his experiences and displayed such...
SINCE the party cannot change the people," Alexander Dubček once said, "it must itself change." One year ago this week, Dubček's historic attempt to guide Czechoslovakia's Communist Party in the direction of that change was suddenly and brutally undone. On a quiet...
Still, a patient render can find what he needs to know from Ziegler. He tells the grisly stories-how the Tartars besieged a Crimean port, for instance, catapulating the corpses of their own plague-stricken comrades over the city walls to infect the defenders. But he also writes clearly of...