Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of Magruder's testimony, TIME Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton interviewed Coffin. The chaplain does not find Magruder's arguments persuasive and still flunks him on ethics. "There was not very much on civil disobedience in the ethics course I taught," he says, "so poor old Jeb never learned to tell the difference between civil disobedience and violations of the Constitution by the Administration...
Although Bennett's reasons may indeed have been that simple, his exit was timely for the Bok Administration. In the wake of the takeover of Mass Hall--by students who were protesting Harvard's investment policy--men like Bennett, who believes that activist shareholder resolutions are a waste of time, just didn't fit into the Bok way of looking at things...
...founding of the Afro-American Studies Department in 1969 took place in the highly-charged political atmosphere which gripped the campus in the wake of the University Hall takeover. Militant black students-- one of whom reportedly carried a concealed meat cleaver--waited somberly outside the Loeb Drama Center while a special Faculty meeting inside debated and then passed the legislation creating the Department...
Bitter Broadside. In the wake of the coup, there were reports that the regime had rounded up hundreds of civilians and military men who were suspected of being royalist partisans. Last week, Papadopoulos sacked his chief of the navy after sitting down to dinner with him the night before. The air force was also grounded for fear that dissident pilots would fly their planes to Italy, in a show of support for the coup...
Last month another financial scandal erupted in the wake of tax-fiddling accusations brought against Lonrho Ltd., a British-owned African conglomerate. The dispute involved several high-ranking Conservative politicians, including former M.P. and Defense Minister Duncan Sandys. It featured ingenious tax dodges such as paying huge executive emoluments into bank accounts in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands and rent-free accommodations for directors. More revelations touching on the seamier side of relations between business and government were being predicted in London. They could cause considerably more long-range difficulties for Heath than the coltish antics...