Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be an important figure in Barry Forman's new play, The Chambers, which opened at the Ex Saturday night; a Harvard law student named Robert Wake interrupts his return from France just to stop at Chambers' vast ancient house and talk with the famous professor. But Wake is entangled by Chambers' strange family and finds himself slipping farther and farther away from the interview he desires. Chambers never appears, and Wake finally loses his way in the labyrinthine corridors of the decaying mansion, unable to escape...
...rabidly segregationist Alabama Journal editorialized: "The federal courts are now running the public schools. The courts are gummed up with hundreds of cases as the South tries to resist herding incompetent and inexperienced voters to the polls and race mixing in the school rooms." Last week, in the wake of violence at Selma, Ala., the Journal had a far different message: "By dumb, cruel and vastly excessive force, we have made new civil rights legislation almost a dead certainty; we have stained the state and put the lie to its claims of peace and harmony; given enough rope...
...demand comes in the wake of a recent student-administration dispute over the university's alleged right to edit the paper...
...election in November, he has carefully skirted the Laurel-Langley issue thus far, fearing that any stand would give ammunition to his opponent, Nationalist Party Leader Ferdinand Marcos, 47. To date, at least, each candidate has been jockeying to appear more pro-American than the other, but in the wake of last week's demo, both agreed that there could be further trouble...
...Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "It's like somebody dying," murmured Seattle Lawyer Archie Greenlee. They had a right to be shocked: both men are parents of cadets who were suddenly dropped from the roster of the U.S. Air Force Academy last week in the wake of the widening, deepening stolen-exam scandal. At Colorado Springs, academy officials sealed off the grounds as tightly as a SAC base on alert, while special investigators from Washington grilled an estimated 700 members of the 2,500-strong cadet wing. By the end of the week 93 students had resigned from...