Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When riots were breaking out in many big cities in the late 1960's, Rizzo, often referred to as "America's toughtest cop," was determined to prevent them in Philadelphia. He once told Stokely Carmichael to "choose [his] words carefully" when the revolutionary civil rights leader came to the city to give a speech. He threatened, "I'm tellin' you, Mr. Carmichael, if you cause a riot in this town, I'm going to personally tear you apart. It'll take four orthopedic surgeons a week to put you together...
...could be eliminated at minimal cost. The University should recognize its role as an academic leader and spearhead a movement to phase it out, promote productive studying and give high school students back their Saturday mornings...
...telephone call placed later in the day to Lee's room revealed this message on the student leader's answering machine: "Ken and Steve aren't in right now, but if this is Jim Karol's assistant, Jim will be performing in the Freshman Union from 5:30 to 6, in Quincy House from 6 to 6:30 and in Eliot House, which was the site of the longest perfomance, is Lee's undergraduate home...
...Making of a Section Leader...
Graham, who had emerged as a leader in the Black community in the years preceding the strike, had spent her time fighting many of the same issues the students were protesting--the Vietnam war, Harvard's rapid expansion into the predominantly, Black Riverside neighborhood and the city's lack of a rent control...