Word: regentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inexperienced guard turned his back, and in a trice the 6-ft. Finnish prisoner was gone, lost in the foliage of London's Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...
...Regent Phillip Boyd and U.C.L.A. chancellor Franklin Murphy, who before Saturday was considered as a leading candidate to replace Kerr, yesterday reaffirmed their support of Meyerson...
When they married the next year, Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, joined forces with an embarrassed Labor government in a Windsor-like sequence of events that ultimately stripped Seretse of his chieftainship and forced him into a six-year British exile. Much of the pressure from the Labor side was exerted by then Commonwealth Relations Secretary Patrick Gordon-Walker, who was twice beaten for Parliament within the last year, partly on the color issue...
...past Regent splits, political factors have determined the result of many debates. The Board at this time is basically liberal and this leads observers to believe that they would refuse Kerr's resignation...
...regent summed up the climate of opinion. "Trying to determine what kind of student activity is legal was an ill-conceived stand in the first place," he said. "In the end you have to let the courts decide what is lawful...