Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups for improving their economic position, [yet] it has subjective dimensions as well, determined by some kind of norms accepted by the society at large. People who fall below the norm do not necessarily consider themselves to be poor, and people who are above the norm may feel poverty stricken...
Zambia's economy was stricken by Kaunda's decision two years ago to go along with United Nations sanctions against the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia, from which Zambia bought almost all of its imports. The government thereupon had to impose rationing, buy its goods in more expensive markets and ship by air and truck routes the bulk of the copper that once moved cheaply over Rhodesia's railroad to ports in Mozambique. As a result, Kaunda has had to curtail his $1.2 billion four-year development plan. Because of high black unemployment, average income is only...
Died. Patrick P. Thienes, 83, onetime polio victim who became a champion hiker; of emphysema; in San Diego. Stricken with polio at six, Thienes began to hike at 14 to strengthen his legs and promote charities that cared for crippled children. In 1905 he covered 9,000 miles in the U.S. and Canada; in 1912 he set a record of 77 days for a coast-to-coast walk-and 50 years later broke it by walking from Los Angeles to New York in 54 days...
Before long, though, the old feud is heated up again. It culminates in a six-man battle on a beach by the bleak northern sea that is like some scene from the Morte d'Arthur. Heads are stricken from shoulders and go bouncing down the sand; bodies are spitted on spear and sword. The effect is stately as a tapestry, stylized as a morality play...
Even before King was pronounced dead, NBC and CBS deployed film crews to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Duke Ellington was playing a benefit for a Mississippi Negro college. As it began, the producer announced the news and cameras caught the stunned and horror-stricken faces in the audience. From Cleveland, CBS carried a film of tear-streaked Mayor Carl Stokes Negro as his constituents sang America. No less eloquent was an interview with Ben Branch, a King aide who had been with him at the time of the assassination and who was still too be numbed to respond...