Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell put a Negro girl, Sylvia Givens, 20, on the committee payroll as a "clerk," then used her for "domestic work"; Miss Givens testified that she worked as a cook and maid at his retreat on South Bimini Island in the Bahamas...
...Sleeping Car Porters. "We view with alarm and disbelief," said Randolph, "the attempt by a small and vindictive clique in the House to unseat the Representative from Harlem." Randolph assured the session that he had talked by phone with Powell, who was still vacationing in his Bahamian island retreat, and that Adam had sent "his greatest love" to all in attendance. Cried Livingston Wingate, onetime Powell aide and former director of HARYOUACT, a New York City antipoverty agency: "They're not after Adam. They're after his black power...
...except aerial photographs in planning their assault, had to do without fancy climbing rigs. And they had to prepare themselves mentally for one of the loneliest undertakings man has ever attempted. Explained Clinch before the climb: "Antarctica is not like the Himalayas, where you can always retreat to a native village if something goes wrong." From the moment that a Navy plane deposited them on a lifeless plateau 20 miles from the base of the Vinson Massif, the climbers' only lifeline to the outside world was an emergency radio hookup with McMurdo Sound, 1,300 miles away. Their sole...
...names the tickets were bought. The subcommittee, which was authorized by the House three months ago to carry out its investigation, also heard Silvia Givens, 20, testify that she was hired by Powell last August as a clerk, but actually worked as a cookmaid at Powell's Bahamian retreat on South Bimini Island. Subpoenaed to appear this week is Powell's estranged wife, Yvette, who is on his payroll as a $20,578-a-year assistant, though she lives in Puerto Rico. Her checks had been going into Powell's personal account until last month, when...
...Politburo member writing under the pen name of Cuu Long, meaning "nine dragons," has gone so far as to redefine Mao's Phase Three as "the phase of guerrilla warfare coupled with concentrated combat." To some well-placed Western experts, that could be translated as preparation for a retreat to the hit-and-hide tactics of the Communist guerrilla-without loss of face or too obvious a break with Mao-faith...