Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ululating crowd of followers, Bishop Abel Muzorewa rode in an ox-drawn cart to the stately white mansion -renamed from Independence House to Dzimbahwe (House of Chiefs)-that for 15 years was occupied by Ian Douglas Smith. The scene raised unsettling questions about Muzorewa's month-old multiracial government: Is it really more than an African show masking the continuation of effective white power? Is there any substance behind the pageantry...
...coup by his Defense Minister, Houari Boumedienne, Ahmed ben Bella had been held incommunicado with his wife and two adopted children in a variety of apartments, most recently in a heavily guarded two-room flat in Birtouta, ten miles from Algiers. According to his wife Zohra, the 62-year-old Ben Bella emerged from his ordeal retaining "all his revolutionary fervor...
...drive, the campaign deadline had to be extended, first by one year and then by another six months. Fund raising was hampered by poor coordination of 5,400 volunteer solicitors, and by the mid-campaign departure of Giamatti's predecessor, Kingman Brewster, who joked that his supporters among Old Blues would contribute before he left (to become U.S. ambassador to Britain), while his detractors would contribute after his departure. Something like that may have happened: Campaign Director Lloyd N. Cutler said last week that "a number of people who were standoffish in the beginning warmed up enormously" after listening...
...Mother Courage, The Caucasian Chalk Circle); in East Berlin. Following a career as a violinist and conductor of the Staädtische Oper in Berlin, Dessau fled the Nazis in 1939 for America, where he began writing the dissonant scores that so effectively complemented Brecht's scripts. An old-line Communist, Dessau returned to East Germany after...
True, some big, old cities, notably New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia, have extensive rapid transit But ila most without exception the equipment is rundown, the subway stations dingy and dangerous and the scheduling haphazard. In most other cities and towns, mass transit is either seriously inadequate or practically nonexistent. Without a car, it is extremely difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get from home to work or to shopping in many cities...