Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Temporary Immunization. It is perhaps only coincidence that none of the cities inoculated by major riot have yet suffered a second big outbreak; in the curious chemistry of violence, they seem to have achieved at least a temporary kind of immunization. No one pretends that the problems of the nation's blacks have been solved, and no one yet dares predict what may come after the Thermidor pause is over.* But governments and ghettos alike have become more sophisticated and skillful at handling their common difficulties. Expressing a widespread view, Jack Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago Center...
...name from the date of Che Guevara's 1967 capture in Bolivia. In return for Elbrick's life, the terrorists made two imaginative demands, to which the government hastily agreed. First, Brazilian newspapers, radio and TV stations had to run a tiresome, 950-word anti-government "manifesto." Second, the government was forced to release 15 political prisoners and fly them to sanctuary in Mexico...
Foreign-car sales totaled 89,000 during July, up 8% over July 1968. Japan's Toyota, now the second largest auto exporter to the U.S. (after Volkswagen), equaled its 1968 U.S. sales during the first seven months of this year, with 68,823 cars...
...comic sense operates on the principle of disparity. His heroes are flies intent on building spiderwebs. In Take the Money and Run, he portrays Virgil Starkwell, a man who would get flustered crossing the street, and imbues him with the delusion that he can master the split-second timing, minute detail and cool bravado needed to become a successful bank robber. Result: a criminal so consistently inept that he fails even to make the Ten Most Wanted list...
Fortunately, her desolate widowhood proves brief. Her second husband is Dr. Teodoro, a hard-working druggist and part-time bassoonist. A man moderate in everything, he makes love to his wife on Wednesdays and Saturdays-with an optional encore on Wednesday. She thinks she is content, until she enters her bedroom and finds Vadinho stretched out naked. The next morning he parades unclad about her cooking class-invisible except to Dona Flor but capable of exerting physical pressure on the breasts of an astonished student. Mostly he can be found in her bed, stating with humorous logic his legitimate posthumous...