Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, compared with the Radcliffe of 1979 the Radcliffe of 1954 stayed much more aloof from its monolithic neighbor. In 1963 Harvard would begin to confer its degrees upon Radcliffe students, and in 1971 Harvard would assume management control of Hilles Library and the Radcliffe dormitories. The admissions offices were merged in the mid 1970s and an "equal access" admissions policy...
...Bianchi got a position at a land title company, but he pretended to colleagues that he was an undercover cop on the side. He carried an attache case in which he kept a phony highway patrol man's badge and identification, handcuffs, and photos of nude women. A neighbor recalls him as "sometimes too friendly, always trying to impress." At times, how ever, he had violent outbreaks of temper and threw heavy objects against the walls of his apartment...
...they had, you would be shot. The first killings were private. Then they called in the whole village. Sometimes they would torture somebody in public; they had very long knives at the end of their guns. One day the guerrillas heard that someone had informed on a neighbor 14 years ago for stealing cattle from a European farm. The informant, an old man, was killed along with his wife and first-born child. A chief had his eyes punched out, then he was pulled into his grass hut and burned alive with one of his sons. A businessman readily gave...
Lois H. Nesbitt, aged 31, died Friday apparently from strangulation. A neighbor discovered Nesbitt shortly before noon in the bedroom of her Codman Park apartment. Police arrested Richard Strother, aged 31, in connection with the murder Saturday...
...armed Rhodesian raiding party last week struck deeply into Zambia, which provides a headquarters and staging bases for 16,000 irregulars of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). In a lightning foray that underscored the feeble defenses of Rhodesia's black-ruled northern neighbor, the invaders overwhelmed a Zambian army base and razed Nkomo's home and headquarters. The suspicion was that the Rhodesians intended either to assassinate the portly nationalist leader or to take him back to Salisbury as a hostage...