Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half of the globe-Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East*-the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history . . . The adversaries of freedom did not create the revolution, nor did they create the conditions which compel it. But they are seeking to ride the crest of its wave-to capture it for themselves." Items in the President's speech...
...assault was launched late last month when a band of six whites and seven Negroes set out to ride by bus from Washington to New Orleans. The integrated trip was sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality, a Manhattan-based organization. Its purpose was to prove, by provoking trouble, that Southern interstate travel is still segregated in fact, although integrated by law. The original Freedom Riders passed with little incident through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Then they came to Alabama-where they found the trouble they wanted...
...William Sloane Coffin Jr., 36, last week became the first white Northerner to organize his own Freedom Ride. Brash, athletic Presbyterian Minister Bill Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, has never lacked for privileges of his own (his father was vice president of Manhattan's high-priced home furnishings store, W. & J. Sloane). He is married to the actress daughter of Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Coffin majored in government at Yale, served as a liaison officer with French and Russian troops during World War II, later worked as a Russian expert for the Central Intelligence Agency after studying divinity at Union...
...many prices the West paid for keeping the war going, according to Kennan, was the Bolshevik Revolution. Had the war ended as late as 1917, he suggests, the Kerensky government might have been able to ride out the revolution and maintain itself in power...
...Moscoso, the result was a peaceful ride up the hill to his new job. And for Betancourt, it was another indication that he may at last be getting his faction-torn country under democratic control...