Word: stampeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a novel begins, "Vangel Griffin was a mass-produced member of the middle middleclass. The first 28 years of his life were stamped, cut out and patterned like a piece of processed cheese," three people deserve instant commiseration. The first is the author, who is obviously about to grate...
Around the Y. But the central fact of Nigerian politics is not a clash between townsman and bush dweller. It is, instead, racial and religious rivalries pointed up by the mighty Y that is stamped across Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that...
Next morning a mob of some 350 teenagers from nearby Nicholls High School cut classes and charged toward McDonogh 19, roaring out a football-styled chant: "Two-Four-Six-Eight, We Don't Want to Integrate." Police steered the students away from their target, but segregationist tempers started to...
As election day draws close, Bagwell spends up to a dozen hours a day at plant gates, carrying his case to the rank and file. A band of Bagwell campaigners swoop down at shift-break time. The men are orange-shirted and the women are orange-skirted, and each uniform...
The title had come to him only a few days before, when relinquished at long last by his father, Joseph R. Knowland, 87, who bought the Tribune in 1915 and bossed it with autocratic instinct for five decades. Bill Knowland had actually been running the paper for almost two years...