Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Select Committee on Assassinations was established last fall by the House of Representatives to make a fresh study of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Despite a seemingly endless series of investigations, rumors, dark suspicions and public doubts persist about who actually shot Kennedy and King. Just last month a Gallup poll showed that 80% of the American people believe that both assassinations were conspiracies; some think the Mafia, the CIA, Cubans or other Communists killed Kennedy. Thus when retired Virginia Congressman Thomas Downing proposed that the assassinations be examined yet again, the House approved...
...response to criticism of the University's "support" of Afro-American studies, President Bok and Dean Rosovsky replace the current chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, Eileen Southern, with Martin Kilson, professor of Government. In another move to, in Bok's words, "prove what we really feel about the Afro Department," Harvard moves the DuBois Institute from Canaday Hall to C-12 Wigglesworth. "We feel the Institute will benefit from its proximity to Widener," Rosovsky tells a news conference...
...Harvard Law School Forum speech by Martin Bormann, Nazi war criminal, draws 95 per cent of the students at the Law School. Outside Sanders Theater, where the speech is held, a protest rally draws 11 demonstrators, including nine Crimson editors...
...pages. Illustrated. St. Martin's Press...
...twelfth novel is set in the now (1976) but hardly the here. Amis has rejiggered the present according to a formula beloved by armchair historians and sore losers: What would have happened if? In the case of The Alteration, the "if is the Reformation: it did not happen. Instead, Martin Luther accepted a compromise with the Roman