Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to review that Halberstam book," my editor insisted, "you really can't." I began a dutiful protest, but knew he had a point. "Look, you're a nice Catholic kid who spent his whole life in some nice Catholic schools, going to Mass and rooting for Notre Dame. You probably think a bar mitzvah is some kind of Jewish saloon. Why do you want to review a novel about the first Jewish Presidential candidate?" Good question. "Because I liked it," I answered...
...sentiment in several years, the Harvard Corporation refused to divest itself of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. It also declined to get rid of its stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponsor shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...
...arrived in Belgrade early in the week amidst rumors that his visit to Rumania had prompted a Soviet protest to Bucharest, which for all its friendliness to Peking still has important military, economic and political ties to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, with maliciously anti-Soviet timing, Hua touched down at the airport outside the Yugoslav capital on the tenth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Lest anyone fail to get his point, he made it clear that night. At a state dinner given by Yugoslavia's venerable Field Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 86, Hua alluded to fears that...
...federal appeals court upheld the group's right to ban women. Leaders of the all-male Louisville chapter, largest in the organization (735 members), have called for admission of females. So, less surprisingly, has the Chicago chapter (234 men, 136 women), which withdrew from the national organization in protest. Complains Chapter President Joan Petranovich, a secretary: "The Jaycees are hypocritical. Here is a group trying to help people that spends its time trying to trip each other...
Carrying hand-lettered placards of protest, nearly 3,000 residents of an Ohio Valley coal-mining area pressed into a hotel ballroom in the town of St. Clairsville in a concerned and angry mood last week. The subject of the meeting, set up by the Environmental Protection Agency: an antipollution rule that has caused a classic conflict involving the competing needs for clean air, jobs and profits...