Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eighteen among the most depraved Negresses of Havana." In the flesh, Evangelina was a bloodthirsty lass who tried to kidnap a Spanish officer, but no matter. The Journal had her smuggled out of prison disguised as a sailor and exhibited her triumphantly at an open-air reception in Madison Square. A half-century later came Fidel ("I am not a Communist") Castro, briefly a hero of U.S. journalism during the black-and-white-television era. He was, he said, fighting for a Cuba where "everyone could assemble, associate, speak and write with complete freedom." Now in his 13th year...
...Chinese wall. Mao could not have made a better public relations move even if he had denounced his own sayings and told the world he was Mr. Henry Ford's secret business partner. This is not foreign policy. It just shows that Mr. Mao also knows something about Madison Avenue...
...next logical steps are Earth Year, Decade and Century. The crusade is at least getting cooler and saner. Instead of noisy confrontations, the 1971 "week" that ended April 25 ran to practical matters like arranging bottle pickups and improvising urban malls. New York City, for example, banned cars on Madison Avenue two hours a day for the entire week. Joining 38 Governors, President Nixon himself endorsed Earth Week, an action he did not feel it necessary to take on Earth Day, even though he was urged to do so by then Interior Secretary Walter Hickel...
...there has been little concern about the possibility of small turnouts from Boston and other student centers, and considerable elation over a swelling stack of bus reservations from previously inactive areas such as Sewanee, Tenn. (one bus); Hollywood, Fla.(one bus); Austin, Texas (two buses); Houston, Texas (five); and Madison, Wisconsin...
...Underground Editor Mark Knops, 28, proclaims himself an active radical. After the University of Wisconsin's mathematics center was bombed last August and a staff researcher killed, Knops' Madison Kaleidoscope printed a letter from the New Year's Gang claiming responsibility for the crime. Knops has indicated that he is a friend of the gang's members and they have his "open and enthusiastic endorsement of sabotage" like the bombing. A grand jury, insisting it did not want Knops' sources, summoned him to testify in its investigation. He refused, citing the Fifth, First and 14th...