Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march will start at 11 a.m. Saturday in front of the White House and end at 2 p.m. with an outdoor meeting near the Washington Monument. Speakers will include Norman Thomas; Dr Benjamin Spock; Carl Oglesby, national president of SDS; and Mrs. Martin Luther King...
...because that's how long it takes an idea to become a cause.... George Orwell said everything that needs to be said about the current international scene in 1948." Well, statements like this don't quite read as cleverly as they speak, and neither does his assertion that Norman Mailer is writing 19th century prose because of phrases like, "the wind rode by." ("Wind doesn't ride, for god's sake," says the spoilsport, "it BLOWS.") But Wolfe's dedication to the minute is real enough, and extremely articulate. He is fascinated by California where the Free-way has broken...
...blackout tried everyone's resources?and few would admit defeat. In stalled elevators and trains, passengers improvised games, including one whose object was to suggest the unlikeliest partners for stalled elevator cars (samples: Jean-Paul Sartre and Norman Vincent Peale; Defense Secretary McNamara and a draft-card burner; any Con Edison executive and any New York housewife). Trapped office workers improvised candles with copies of Book Week and rubber cement...
...precedent-setting verdict last week, for example, an all-white jury in Hattiesburg, Miss., found Norman Cannon, 19, guilty of raping a 15-year-old Negro girl. Cannon is white-and not in living memory has a white Mississippian been convicted of raping a Negro...
...week to the day after Quaker Norman Morrison burned himself to death outside the Pentagon, Roman Catholic Roger LaPorte, 22, a student at Manhattan's Hunter College, doused his clothes with gasoline and set himself aflame on a street corner outside United Nations headquarters. Like Morrison, he chose immolation as a way to protest U.S. warfare in South Viet...