Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exasperation, seven committee Democrats have been plotting their revolt against the chairman since midsummer. When Powell got word of their plans, he denounced the uprising as a racist conspiracy, aiming his angrier invectives at Florida's Sam Gibbons, 46, a Democrat with an unimpaired liberal record who has had to assume responsibility for the antipoverty bill in Powell's absence...
Lisser's exit under pressure brought on a well-deserved counter-revolt. All but two of the 55-member I.S. 201 faculty-including its 26 Negroes-refused to teach under anyone except Lisser. Assistant Principal Beryl Banfield, a Negro named to replace him, indignantly declined, because, she said, "I object to being chosen on the basis of color, not competence...
...mostly the change is an attempt to overcome widespread campus apathy toward student governments, whose limited power made them seem impotent compared with the campus New Left, particularly after the 1964 student revolt at Berkeley. Lenore Sheridan, a member of the Students for a Demo cratic Society at Illinois, charges that the N.S.A. "doesn't really mean much," because it is made up of "middleclass white Americans" who may talk about revolution but are unwilling to bring about a "fundamental" change in American society. So N.S.A.'s politicians judge that the route to relevance and influence is emulation...
...Page has a frightening knack for being close-sometimes too close-to the action. Near Chu Lai last August, he took memorable LIFE color pictures of the Marine operation, as well as a painful piece of Viet Cong shrapnel in his rear. In the thick of the recent Buddhist revolt in Danang, Page was again working for LIFE when a rebel grenade exploded near his face and cost him two pints of blood before medics could patch up his eight wounds...
...government, a coalition of Umma and the Moslem National Union Party. With the coalition falling apart, Sadik last week decided that the time had come for him to move out of the back ground. Over the vociferous protests of his uncle, the Imam, he led Parliament in a revolt that ousted Mahgoub and elected a new Premier: Sadik el Mahdi...