Word: vil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their work for the Legal Defenders, but how they "managed law school and marriage." She told them she wanted to meet Charles Morgan, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Atlanta office; and talk about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but only to discuss Title VIL, Which outlaws inequitable hiring practices by employers because...
...advancing Viet Cong, Addiss and Crofut had to sing to a constantly shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless flood victims. In one remote mountain vil lage, their performance ended up in a woolly hootenanny with the loinclothed montagnard tribesmen chanting and playing along on gongs and flute. Faced by antagonistic students ready to argue politics, Addiss and Crofut always retreated to song. "As soon as they realized that all we were selling was music," explains Addiss, "they...
Measure of Influence. Two other ma chine men were stopped in New York last week. In the 21st Congressional District, Chief Buckley Lieutenant and five-term Representative James C. Healey lost 20,000 to 22,000 to Reformer James H. Scheuer. In Greenwich Vil lage, onetime Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio lost a second bid to regain his district leadership to Attorney Edward I. Koch in a 5,904 to 5,740 vote. In one exception, however, 19th District Congressman Leonard Farbstein, an oldtime Tammany politician, turned back reform Challenger William Haddad, 35, with 19,851 votes to Haddad...
Freely translated, Lal Bahadur Shastri means "Graduate Brave Jewel." He was born in 1904, the second son of a minor tax collector in the vil lage of Mughal Sarai, near the holy city of Benares. His father died when he was an infant. The child belonged to the Kayasth caste, who were disdained as quislings by other Hindus because they became clerks and officials under the Moslem rule of the conquering Mogul emperors. Their reputation for shrewdness is so great that an Indian saying runs, "If you meet a Kayasth and a serpent, kill the Kayasth first...
...police politely invite the menace to leave town; he politely refuses. They harass him with sudden searches and unreasonable arrests; he gets a lawyer and they have to stop. They also have to stop guarding the hero's house when the vil lain's lawyer threatens to tell the taxpayers how their money is being spent. Next day the hero's watchdog is poisoned. The chief of police advises him to hire a private detective: "It's a terrible thing to say, but there's nothing more we can do." While the detective tails...