Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having synchronized their swings in the Big Three meet on Thursday, the Crimson linksters continued to gyrate with lyrical accuracy yesterday and left URI and Southern Connecticut State following the bouncing ball at the Point Judith Country Club in Naragansett...
...recent years the conference has become the primary agenda-setter for the churches in Africa. Outside Africa it is regarded as representing the "total voice" of the churches on the continent. Its unequivocal support for the armed struggle being waged by the liberation movements in southern Africa, its vocal protests and denunciations of violations of human rights in Burundi, Equitorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Central African Empire and several other independent African nations, and its successful attempts to promote reconciliation and justice in Zaire, Nigeria and the Sudan have all served to enhance the stature and credibility of the African churches...
Most violent in its illegal resistance to the struggle for unionization has been the J.P. Stevens Company. As long as there remains such strong resistance to the unions, and while companies such as J.P. Stevens still retain their hold on southern workers, the UFW's organizing work in the southern fields will have to wait. Instead, the farmworkers will support the struggles of the textile workers, in order that the workers of the South, both in the fields and in the mills, will realize that the fight for unionization must be waged together...
...dreadful conflict." The key to avoiding such a conflict, Moose maintains, lies in an evenhanded approach to the transition. "Whether the transfer of power is resolved politically or militarily," he says, "will have an enormous impact on the whole region; it will determine whether we'll have a southern Africa in turmoil...
Back in the early 1960s, two Southern California optometrists named Stuart Grant and Charles May learned of a surprising effect in patients they had fitted with contact lenses. The patients had been given the lenses to correct myopia, or nearsightedness, a condition that usually gets worse rather than better. Yet some of these people, after wearing contacts for only a few months, found their vision without lenses had mysteriously improved. Recalls Grant: "Sometimes they would get halfway to work and realize that they were not even wearing their contacts...