Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some five hours after Kapwepwe's resignation, Kaunda went on radio to declare a state of siege on the grounds that rising tribal tension was "splitting the nation." Moving to take over personal control of the United Party, Kaunda suspended its constitution, abolished its faction-ridden Central Committee, and sacked all of its officers-including No. 2 Man Simon Kapwepwe. "A change is absolutely necessary if we are to survive," said Kaunda...
Dinis plans to call about 20 witnesses, including the five "boiler room" girls who were present at the cookout in a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick (see THE NATION). The attorney for the girls wants Judge Boyle to narrow the scope of the inquiry. Without any restrictions on the questioning, he contends, the girls could be quizzed on their entire lives...
...public's confidence in the press, its trust and preference in news sources and its attitudes toward some of the more controversial issues covered by the media. The results indicate that although Americans are quick to criticize the way news is handled, underlying public trust in the nation's press and in its constitutional safeguards remains strong. Harris finds, in fact, that nearly two out of every three adults in his representative sample of 1,600 express the view that they are "better informed today than they were five years ago." But, Harris concludes, "this...
Died. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, 66, daughter of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew Mellon, and long regarded as the nation's richest woman; in Manhattan. Over the years, Mrs. Bruce (she married Career Diplomat David Bruce in 1926; they were divorced in 1945) quietly donated enormous sums to the institutions she loved, including $20 million (in conjunction with her brother) to Washington's National Gallery of Art last year and $3,000,000 to Lincoln Center in 1958. But, as a friend put it, "she had more money than anyone could give away sensibly." Last year FORTUNE estimated her personal worth...
...Prohibition fused the amateurism and catch-as-catch-can national tendencies of the early days of the republic with a more modern, highly organized lust for violence and the quick buck. It fused the need to massacre twelve hundred thousand American Indians and ten million American buffalo, the lynching bees, the draft riots, bread riots, gold riots and race riots, the constant wars, the largest rats in the biogest slums, boxing and football, the loudest music, the most strident and exploitative press with the entire wonderful promise of tomorrow and tomorrow, always dragging the great nation downward...