Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria's strongman Houari Boumedienne. Host Hassan neatly averted the problem of sitting alongside an old enemy, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, by having his placard lettered "Kingdom of Morocco." That enabled him to move down seven places at the alphabetically arranged table...
...Protector. Because of the delays, the delegates stayed on an extra day to endorse a final communique. As far as the militants were concerned, they need not have bothered. Seven of the non-Arab Moslem countries, including Iran, Senegal and Turkey, have diplomatic ties with Israel. As a result, resolutions calling for all Moslem nations to break off relations with Israel were foredoomed. The final communiqué simply echoed parts of the 1967 U.N. resolution, calling on Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories that it occupied during the Six-Day War and asked the Big Four to redouble their...
Ahmedabad soon swarmed with refugees. At one point, 20,000 Moslems crowded into the city stadium. Seven days after the riots began, a grim Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) drove silently past Ahmedabad's blackened buildings, then returned to New Delhi and summoned the heads of India's states to discuss ways of avoiding future Ahmedabads. Her advice might well be the same as Gandhi's admonition to his Congress Party members 44 years ago: "Go throughout your districts, and spread the message of Hindu-Moslem unity...
...seven other members are: Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology; Herbert C. Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics; Anthony C. Oettinger 51, professor of Linguistics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics; Donald P. Warwick, lecturer on Social Relations; John Womac Jr. '59, assistant professor of History: I, Bernard Cohen '37, professor of the History of Science, and Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences...
Ptashne hopes that the resolution will pass as it is worded in the letter. "It took the Columbia Faculty Senate six or seven hours of debate to write the statement, and I feel that it is one which people with slightly differing views can agree on," he said...