Word: judo
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...Social judo" was the late Saul Alinsky's memorable phrase describing actions aimed at applying leverage to the enemy's weak points to force social change. The 34 black students who occupied Massachusetts Hall one year ago today skillfully attempted to use Harvard's prestige to flip the university into aiding the cause of black freedom fighters thousands of miles away...
...Lidt-dejude has a 2-2 record. Holding a brown belt in judo and formerly a high school football lineman, the MIT goliath won both his matches by pins...
...olive oil and sello (ground almonds, honey, butter, flour and dates). Coops enclosed live chickens and a duck named Sinbad. There was also a pet monkey named Safi. With Heyerdahl sailed an oddly assorted crew of six: a Russian doctor, an Italian mountain climber, a Mexican anthropologist, an Egyptian judo champion, and Abdullah, a desert dweller from Chad who did not even know the sea was salt. The only real sailor on board was a New York building contractor named Norman Baker, an old Navyman...
...Texas Judo. Nixon, of course, has many more immediate uses for Connally's talents. Although he has proved a quick study at his new job, Connally believes he can hire all the expertise he needs to help him run the Treasury. His larger assignment is to apply his particular form of Texas judo on direct orders from the President, with whom he consults at least once a week. Says one White House aide: "He's going to be the best public relations man this Administration ever...
...against South Korea, but they have also managed to train 2,000 guerrillas from 25 countries; 700 foreign rebels are now believed to be in residence in ten special camps. Training lasts from six to 18 months. Foreigners as well as Koreans are taught taekwondo, the local version of judo and karate, and are put through such rigorous training as running five hours at night, sometimes through rough mountain terrain, shouldering 100-lb. sandbags. "Running, running, running," in fact, is the training slogan...