Word: processional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hungry in Bed. Riding from stop to stop in a chartered bus with HERE COMES HUMPHREY emblazoned on the front, Hubert Humphrey concentrated on the shabby little mining towns in the Fifth and Sixth districts, making what an aide calls his "F.D.R. speech," a ringing cry for a new deal...
So far, in Johannesburg as well as in Cape Town, where Mourning Day was also observed, all the violence, demonstrating and pass-burning had been in native areas. No procession had yet violated the main streets of white men's cities. In most areas African passions were ebbing. But...
"The situation is completely under control," said Verwoerd soothingly, but he acted like a man who feared imminent revolution on a national scale. Before dawn on Wednesday, even before the emergency declaration was fully in effect, his detectives fanned out in simultaneous raids throughout the nation to arrest scores of...
Married. Princess Padmavati Raje, 19, daughter of western India's Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior; and Maharaja Kirit Bikram of Tripura, 23, powerless (since India's independence in 1947) chief of a small, warrior-caste state in northeast India; in a Bombay ceremony that was preceded by a two...
As dawn broke on the main day of the festival last week, 20,000 holy men-at least 1,000 of them naked and covered with ashes-made up a procession down to the river with banners and bugles, painted elephants and a brass band. "Jai, jai Ram [Glory to...