Word: vigilable
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...lost their only means of influencing Harvard admissions policy. Blacks are going to have to come to grips with their powerlessness in both alumni and faculty quarters. While it is not blacks's exclusive responsibility to go out and recruit, it is incumbent upon them to reinitiate an active vigil over Harvard admissions. If black students neglect this responsibility there is nobody else to carry it out for them...
...Capitol steps, 500 or so praying, fasting kids ended their three-day vigil for Nixon. They sang beautifully, strong voices lifting the strains of America and The Battle Hymn of the Republic out over Capitol Plaza. It reminded one of others in our history-like the Mormons-whose nourishment in times of stress came from song. White House Aide Bruce Herschensohn came round and read a message from the President, ensconced in his San Clemente mansion...
Offices and banks shut down, most buses and trains stopped running, many food stores, closed. Except for the vigil by mourners, Buenos Aires last week came to a standstill in grieving for Juan Domingo Perón. His death at 78 from severe influenza followed by cardiac arrest plunged the nation into sorrow and anxiety over the future of Argentina without Per?...
...Henry Kissinger was trying to negotiate peace, TIME'S bureaus deployed on both sides of hostile borders. In Israel, the Jerusalem bureau's David Halevy and Photographer David Rubinger raced to Ma'alot. For an eyewitness report at the climax of a day's excruciating vigil, Halevy moved into the school building with a wave of Israeli paratroopers. Says Halevy, who was wounded in the October war: "I have seen many terrible scenes as a soldier and as a journalist. But I have never seen anything as bad as Ma'alot." Bureau Chief William...
Although it was past midnight Monday when Brandt's resignation was announced, more than 150 torch-bearing Social Democratic Party members marched up to Brandt's house on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn. Placing candles before its heavy iron gate, they took up a silent vigil, broken only by occasional shouts of "Willy! Stay in office!" The following day, tens of thousands of Brandt supporters marched through cities across Germany-Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hannover, West Berlin, Bonn. Telegrams urging the Chancellor to reconsider flooded S.P.D. headquarters...