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Simultaneously, he took his crusade to the people. Addressing the American Mothers' Committee convention in Manhattan, he implored: "When you go back to your own communities, let your radio stations know that you are behind this campaign. Your support at the grass-roots level will go a very long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners & Morals: Socking It to 'Em | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

Soon afterward charges by General George Grivas, the Greek army commander on Cyprus, shook the Papandreou government like a row of fig trees in a thunderstorm. Grivas said that he had uncovered a plot on Cyprus in which a group of junior officers were plotting to overthrow the monarchy, purge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: The Besieged King | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

Instant Negritude. Among the chosen Negroes who are not entirely uncritical of the fact that colleges now covet them, Cecilia McDaniel, an A student in Winston-Salem, N.C., sees her sudden popularity as a form of "reverse racism-an effort of schools to purge themselves of a longtime discrimination against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Courting the Negro | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

Such action could scarcely come soon enough. Even if Great Lakes pollution ceased immediately and completely, Chemist Robert Rainey of Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports in a recent Science magazine article, it would still take the natural flow of water through the lakes a shockingly long time to purify them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Salvaging the Lakes | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

A Light on History. As the person closest to Stalin during much of his brutal, 30-year reign, Svetlana could well shed much light on shrouded facets of Soviet political history. She was just a young girl when Stalin launched his bitter purge of the 1930s. Even after Stalin'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Surprise from the Past | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

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