Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group in 1969, its activities were largely limited to rhetoric about the need for "an armed proletariat vanguard" to do battle against "the imperialist state of the multinationals." In the early 1970s, the group moved from vandalism and arson into a new field: kidnapings of plant managers and junior executives, who were usually freed after admitting crimes at "people's trials...
...stop out regret the decision, and most feel that the experience helps clarify their career aims. "The year away was very much worth it," says Johns Hopkins Junior Sue Matesic, 22, who worked with a Bible study group. "Now I am sure of what I want to do." She returned to school persuaded that she could best put her religious beliefs into practice in a career in politics. Princeton Junior Steven Hayishi, 20, took a job as a hospital orderly for ten months; he came back convinced that medicine was his vocation...
...fellow Pre-Med Steven Shafer, 24, who dropped out after the first week of his junior year, hitched a trailer to his car and headed for California. Two years later he was back in school, still eager to pursue medicine but also possessing some valuable souvenirs of his stop-out period, including a pilot's license, a fair knowledge of American literature, and the ownership of a computer software firm that grossed $300,000 last year...
...wound up in Atlanta, where he became one of two aides on the issues staff of the fledgling Jimmy Carter presidential campaign. "It was an incredible education," he recalls, "the kind I don't think you could ever get from a textbook." Paul Albritton, 21, a Yale junior who spent last year working in Latin America for a Houston-based public health organization, echoes Miller. "You go for so many years in a classroom with theoretical models being placed in front of you," he complains. "Getting out and working, getting your hands dirty, gives you a much better idea...
Brutus, whose son Anthony Brutus is a junior here, was labelled "colored" in South Africa, but he said, "We don't let those labels bother us; they are just another device to divide and rule." Suggestions that South Africa's blacks are so divided tribally that they could not rule their country are also misleading, he added, because over 50 per cent of the black population lives in cities, and the old tribal structures broke down many years...