Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican Party, which has drawn much of its nourishment from the American heartland, struggled to replenish itself in the physically congenial surroundings of the crop-rich plains of Kansas and Missouri. Yet it was a frail and fractured remnant of the party that had swept to an easy victory only four years ago. Political tempers threatened to soar as high as the 100° temperatures in Kansas City. Whatever the outcome of its most suspenseful national convention in a quarter century, the party seemed lost in its internal battles over nuances of conservatism (see cover story page...
...turn the Defender, founded in 1905, into a daily was made in 1956 by Editor and Publisher John Sengstacke, 63. Since then, his company has grown into one of the hundred largest black businesses in America. (Included in its holdings is the New Pittsburgh Courier, a healthy five-edition remnant of the old Courier, which was in serious financial difficulty when it was acquired in 1966.) After a bad year in 1975, Defender circulation and revenues are up. One big problem common to black urban newspapers: distribution. Dealers in interracial neighborhoods refuse to carry the Defender, and in black areas...
...Theater lies a grassy fifty yards from the Loeb but seems shabby genteel by comparison. the dressing rooms huddle in the basement, ceilinged by exposed pipes that cast members have garnished with crepe paper. The festive one-for-all atmosphere heightened in intensity; in a few hours the only remnant of two months work would be a stack of slides the producer arranges in a small, plastic carousel. "AAAaaah, Ooooh, la-la-la-la-la-ne-ne-ne-t-t-t-;" gregarious gobs gather in garious groups." The cast hopped and stomped, up and down, practicing diction and singing scales...
...Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds in Gutierez's leg. Another priest, Fernando Salas, later smuggled Gutierez and a guerrilla companion...
...located near the center of the salient. Crossmaglen's most distinguishing feature is a fire-gutted remnant of the town hall, destroyed by the British after an I.R.A. ambush. Half a block off the main square, whose principal commercial life revolves around ten seedy-looking pubs, is a British army post housing some 110 Royal Fusiliers. The compound is known locally as the Alamo, and for good reason: it is ringed by two-story-high corrugated steel walls, topped by concertina wire and strung over with camouflage netting...