Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Badge for Hire. In the past two years, gaudy, gritty Greater Miami (400 sq. mi.; pop. 840,000) has become revolutionary headquarters of the Americas, with guns, boats, planes and men to man them all for the buying. In April Nicaraguan exiles boldly hijacked a C46 transport at Miami International Airport and flew off in an abortive assassination try against President Luis Somoza. In July a boatload of revolutionaries from Miami stormed ashore in Haiti only to be riddled by President null Duvalier's army. The next day Dominican rebels were nabbed loading arms on another...
...past ten years, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin, Presbyterian pastor of Cincinnati's St. Barnabas Church, has refused to pay all of his federal income tax -since 1955 he has not even filed a return. His defense: Christian principle. As a pacifist, he declines to contribute to armaments by paying taxes. Last week the feds came for Non-Taxpayer McCrackin...
Sparkplug and chairman of the four-day conference was young Manhattan Lawyer F. William Stringfellow, 30, a graduate of Harvard Law School ('56), who, after visiting 30 law schools during the past year, became convinced that faculty members are disturbed by the excessive pragmatism of U.S. legal education...
...bitter old man, lacking even the salt of irony. With a single yellow eye, and white hair growing in his ears. Leaning on a hickory cane, complaining out of pride, sexless slowly rubbing one palsied hand across his navel and nodding in that dead omniscience of the past. Waiting for the world to come to him like a pig-tailed child. He is a Society, a god sometimes called Moloch...
...been the case in the past few seasons, depth will probably decide the Crimson's future. The varsity appears to be very strong at the starting positions; but below this the picture clouds up quickly, and here coach John Yovicsin will have to hope for the rapid development of some fairly untried talent, especially in the line, where seems to lie the fate of the 1958 varsity eleven...