Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MEETING of black students last week, John F. Hatchett, director of New York University's Martin Luther King Center, called Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and United Federation of Teachers leader Albert Shanker "racist bastards." Two days later Hatchett was fired as director of the Center by NYU president James M. Hester, who said that Hatchett "has proved to be increasingly ineffective in performing his duties because of the incompatability of many of his actions and public statements with the requirements of the University." NYU students quickly occupied two campus buildings to protest the firing, and a student strike...
...rest of the team was able to keep pace with the leader to give Harvard the edge. Phil Lichtenstein and Meltzoff both ran their best races to date...
...finest performance of his career, Gatto, the Harvard captain, gained 144 yards, scored one touchdown, had another called back by a penalty, and blocked like a tackle. Gatto's yardage moved him within 50 yards of the alltime Crimson rushing leader, Dick Clasby...
...days after the Lower Saxony elections, the National Democrats' leader, Adolf von Thadden, was forced to suspend a series of scheduled party rallies after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...
...from the arteriosclerosis of absolute power held too long. While proclaiming the high ideals of revolution embodied in the constitution of 1917, it has turned increasingly to the power of the army to put down revolts in the impoverished countryside and to quell demonstrations of dissent. As one student leader puts it: "The constitution has been violated more times than a Parisian streetwalker...