Word: toms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Union (KANU) nor Odinga's Kenya People's Union (KPU) were organized along strictly tribal lines. One of KANU's brightest stars, for example, was Tom Mboya, the brilliant young Minister for Economic Planning-and a Luo. In recent years, however, both party memberships have become increasingly polarized. Mboya's assassination last July widened the rift. A Kikuyu was found guilty of Mboya's murder, and ugly rumors persist that high-ranking KANU leaders instigated the slaying. At Mboya's funeral, Kenyatta's car was stoned. Fearful of further Luo unrest...
...Castro, a slight, handsome Chicano leader, walks with me through the broken, crumbling barrios of East Los Angeles and tells me: "We have a new nationalism now. There is no more Tio Taco, which is our version of Uncle Tom. We may be a few years behind the blacks in our militance, but we are getting there very fast...
...first directorial assignment, Herbert Ross lights Clark's songs as if she were doing a turn on This Is Tom Jones, and tends to place his camera at jarring angles. He even mounts it on the V-l, making the viewer feel like a patient of Dr. Strangslove. No matter. It is one of the graces of group art that if any one can destroy a project, so any one can save it. Mr. Chips is barely enough because Mr. O'Toole is more than enough...
...Captain Keith Colburn, Roy Shaw. Tom Spengler and Mike Koerner have all won meets for the Crimson this year. and junior Dave Pottetti is only a few steps behind them. Any one of the five could win today, and the rest are sure to follow fairly closely behind, bunched comfortably in a group that will clinch the meet early...
McCurdy's strategy is to mercilessly dog the opposition's top two runners early in the race, hounding them with his Shaws and Spenglers until they burn themselves out. Last week, it was crucial for the Tigers to finish both Stafford and Downey in the top three, and Tom Yunck not far behind. By the second mile. Downey was finished. Stafford dropped out of contention a mile or so later, and the Crimson captured the first three places. with Colburn winning in record time. But in order to adopt that killing strategy you need depth. Harvard has it. and late...