Word: knit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When violence was sweeping the nation's campuses in the late 1960s, a relatively small group of professors formed an alliance to carry the banner for scholarship. Though loosely knit, the University Centers for Rational Alternatives argued forcibly that student violence and emphasis on political action threatened academic freedom, and thus learning Today the students are subdued. But u c R.A., which now has 3,000 members among 'faculty and administrators on 350 campuses, continues to carry essentially the same banner. Only the foe has changed...
...dignitaries had not come to Algiers for combat, however. They were there to attend the fourth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, a loose-knit organization formed in 1961 during the heat of the cold war by Tito, Egypt's Gamal Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. Then, the foremost aim of the conference had been to seek means by which the smaller and poorer nations of the world could protect themselves from political and economic encroachment by the superpowers...
Radcliffe started well in the race, and a third of the way through, led both Poland and Czechoslovakia. But unfortunately, the 'Cliffe eight pulled a couple of crabs at the 500 meter mark, which was just enough to set them behind the rest of the closely-knit field. Radcliffe finished last and, along with the Czechs, failed to make the finals. Rumania, East Germany, Poland, and Hungary joined the Russians and Bulgarians in the finals the next...
...highly visible. TIME Correspondent William Marmon was at the forbidding Boyati military prison, 20 miles north of Athens, when the gates opened for Alexandros Panagoulis, 34, who set off an explosion in 1968 that missed killing Papadopoulos by a split second. Marmon cabled: "Panagoulis emerged in a blue knit shirt and gray pants. After embracing his lawyer and receiving a kiss from his 62-year-old mother Athina, he was quick to announce: 'I do not repent. I am not ashamed of what I have done.' He pulled up his shirt and showed long scars running...
...company remains essentially a tightly knit family affair. The heirs of Walt and Roy O. Disney (who died in 1971) retain the largest single block of the stock. President Walker, 57, and Chairman Donn B. Tatum, 60, both joined the Disney brothers in the '30s; Executive Producer Ronald W. Miller is Walt's son-in-law, and Roy Disney's son Roy E. Disney heads T.V. projects...