Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nigerian Pressure. For all its low visibility, the conflict is brutally real. The Nigerian army in two years has expanded to 90,000 men. In the process, nearly 20,000 soldiers have been killed or wounded; many died because of in adequate medical care. In the Lagos sub urb of Yaba, a military hospital de signed for 120 patients is overwhelmed with 1,100 wounded...
...known as Cassius Clay, got in his licks, too. After the fight, the suspended Muslim minister said that until his appeal on a draft-evasion conviction is decided, "I don't want to say I'm formally retired. And they can't have a real champion until I do that or until I'm physically whipped." Amen...
...Black Power. "The Christian cannot waste time contemplating the next world, if there is a next." One participant in the session, Preston N. Williams of Boston University, explained: "The black man cannot divorce theology from social action. Whites say, 'That's not theology at all.' The real question is who is going to define the norms of theology." Some Negro churchmen feel that theology created by white men views God's action through honkie eyes, making it meaningless for the Negro situation. Says Methodist Bishop Joseph A. Johnson: "We affirm our blackness, recognize that our experience...
...Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., Judy was a vaudeville trouper at the age of five. Her father died when she was twelve, and her mother, as Judy remarked bitterly years later, "was no good for anything except to create cha os and fear. She was the worst - the real-life Wicked Witch of the West." The nearest thing to a home that Judy had was the MGM lot in Hollywood, where - between long agonizing hours before the camera - Louis B. Mayer sent her to the studio school with the rest of his adolescent stars...
...actual volume of sales-discounting inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests that consumer demand, which has been partially responsible for inflation, is moderating. And no wonder. The U.S. is currently in the midst of the longest period of non-growth in real take-home pay since World...