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...Afro constitution's apparent exclusion of white members. Epps also joined Thomas I. Atkins, then a graduate student and now a Boston city councillor, in organizing a number of marches on the Boston school committee's offices. In May 1964, activists discovered that Harvard was the largest single share-holder in the holding company that owned Mississippi Power and Light, whose board of directors included several members of local white Citizens' Councils--it was the first time Harvard's stock ownership had been controversial, but it wouldn't be the last, even for the same holding company, Middle South Utilities...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A History of the Strike | 4/10/1974 | See Source »

...this end CALC has introduced two share-holder resolutions to General Electric, one of which would require G.E. to evaluate the energy-use impact of any new product...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationwide Group Opposes Funding For B-1 Bomber | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

...Although Dom Holder is perhaps Brazil's best-known figure abroad, his name cannot be mentioned in the national press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: A Decade of Ditadura | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...first official acts was to abolish Parliament, the constitution and elections. Today Bokassa is virtually a one-man government. He is not only life President, commander in chief of the armed forces and president of the only political party but, as a result of his periodic Cabinet shuffles, the holder of ten ministerial portfolios, ranging from Defense to Information to Mines. From his subjects he demands ostentatious displays of devotion, for, as he once put it, "miracles enter my body." In the C.A.R.'s pleasant riverside capital of Bangui (pop. 125,000), portraits of Bokassa can be seen everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Lord High Everything | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...race matched Harry M. Fox, 49, Saylor's loyal administrative assistant for all 13 of his terms, against Democrat John P. Murtha Jr., 41, a boyish-looking car-wash operator in Johnstown, three-term representative in the Pennsylvania house and lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserve. The holder of two Purple Hearts awarded during volunteer service in Viet Nam in 1966-67, Murtha becomes the first Indochina veteran to win election to Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: An Unclear Gauge | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

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