Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INVITATION TO A BEHEADING, as adapted by Russell McGrath from the Vladimir Nabokov novel, is not much of a play-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. However, Joseph Papp's Public Theater production is an elegant example of inventive staging, costuming and ensemble playing that all but makes up for the script...
Nkrumah's spending and bribe taking led in 1966 to his overthrow by the military leaders. Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah became Ghana's new head of state, dedicated to reform. Ankrah and his followers pledged that they would "stamp out corruption" and their upright regime seemed to be doing just that. But last week Ankrah was also forced out of office. Reason: he took a bribe...
Incendiary Value. Whether or not the author intended it, this is an inflammatory statement, and it has reverberated far beyond the modest circle of the Review's 12,000 subscribers. Columnist Joseph Alsop and Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, who writes a weekly column for the Washington Post, have entered demurrers. In a Virginia court, Jensen has been quoted by attorneys resisting the integration of schools in Greensville and Caroline counties. Well aware of the article's incendiary value, the editors of the Review will publish five closely reasoned rebuttals to Jensen's thesis in their next issue...
...Houses, volunteers only, would exchange rooms with Cliffies under the proposed plan. "We feel that we have a chance of getting such an experiment approved if we present a simple, clear cut plan in which all of the details have been worked out and which the Masters have approved," Joseph J. Thaler '70, committee chairman, said...
...Died. Joseph Kasavubu, 56, President of the Congo Republic in the stormy first years of nationhood; of a brain hemorrhage; in Boma, Lower Congo. Kasavubu took office in 1960 at a time of total chaos: the army began to mutiny, mineral-rich Katanga was threatening to secede, Premier Patrice Lumumba seemed bent on turning the country Communist. What saved Kasavubu was an Army coup by Colonel Joseph Mobutu, who thereafter largely held the power while allowing Kasavubu to administer, until Mobutu deposed him in 1965 to assume the presidency himself...