Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts to walk humbly, seek mercy, and do justice. At home and at school, he was urged to do likewise. However, by the time he was fifteen, George Jackson was already making it clear that he had no intention of conforming, of diving into his father's wake voluntarily. By then he had already ceased to make any real effort to appease, and had dropped out of school. He had learned the subtle lessons of resistance Papa Davis had offered him far more thoroughly than he had absorbed the passive rituals of St. Malachy's segregated Catholicism. Most important, George...
...republic was born amid a chorus of gongs and dancing in the streets. Last week Cambodia celebrated the first anniversary of that event. But despite a much improved military situation in the countryside, there were no festivities. They had been canceled in the wake of a new wave of guerrilla-style attacks on Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. The most dramatic occurred late last month, when sappers struck the city's biggest fuel storage depot, burning 1,750,000 gals, of oil. Two weeks ago five persons were killed, including two Americans, when terrorists tossed two grenades during...
...have been looking past the game with Colgate, who is now 5-1, to today's match. "It took us a long time to wake up," Wood explained. "I figured Colgate was very good but then again I wasn't playing." In the second half, one Cornell shot hit the goal post and another missed an open...
PRISONS Attica Aftermath In the wake of the tragic Attica uprising, New York state officials were trying to ensure that it can never happen again. They talk faintly of prison reform, much more passionately of better security. Shaken more than ever before in its history, the state prison system is determined to do better what it has always done before...
PODGORNY TO HANOI: Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny will visit Hanoi early next month. He will undoubtedly try to exploit North Viet Nam's uneasiness about Richard Nixon's planned visit to Peking. He may also offer Soviet aid in the wake of severe floods that have devastated the Red River Delta. Podgorny is also scheduled to visit Iran for next month's celebrations of the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...