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...Woodstock, N.Y., became the symbol of the Age of Aquarius when it lent its name to a three-day love-in and rock concert featuring, among others, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Arlo Guthrie. Though the festival was ultimately held 50 miles away, Flower Power devotees and New York City weekenders have since flocked to the once quiet community. But as Woodstock (pop. 6,800) has grown, it has run into some of the fiscal problems facing other towns and cities. Among them: paying off an $8.5 million debt to the local sewer district...
...persuaded to lift blacks to equality. Could the system then be scared into action? The Watts and Newark riots of the mid-'60s may have been mainly fratricidal, and the your-money-or- your-wife taunts of the Black Panthers may have been mainly street theater, but they lent an image of the black man as a figure of strength and menace. We don't want to be you, these blacks told whites; we want...
Leadership has been the Gandhi family's birthright. In a land accustomed to rajas, maharajas, kings and emperors, a republican ruling family was consistent with India's long history. It lent legitimacy to the government of a country that until independence in 1947 had been as much a state of mind as a nation-state...
...drew only one or two committed students ready to put their academic careers on the line instead of the 45 who know they will get off scot free. Remember, it was the willingness of people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to endure hardship that lent credibility and depth to their civil disobedience...
...Lance connection eventually led to Jimmy Carter. When he left office, Abedi lent him B.C.C.I.'s corporate jet to replace Air Force One, donated $500,000 to help establish the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta, and began pumping donations into Carter's Global 2000 Foundation, which provided health care in the Third World. Sources close to B.C.C.I. say Abedi gave "millions" to the charitable project. Carter spokesmen would not confirm the amount but conceded that B.C.C.I. gave $1.5 million last year (the former President was not available for an interview on the subject of Abedi). That gift...