Word: wards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casting of Ann-Margaret as a Radcliffe-type undergraduate did not help matters (although she got her acclaimed role in Carnal Knowledge as a result). Nor was 32-year old Gary Lockwood entirely credible as a Harvard SDS leader. "Jesus, if they hadn't cast it from a geriatric ward we'd have had half a chance." As it was the film got mired in a morass of Hollywoodism. "But I got to meet Quinn, who is a real original and I admire Kramer though our bomb was of the multi-megaton variety...
Contradictions hung from him like the charms that once dangled from the arms of his chair to ward off evil spirits. From his birth in a mud hut, Kwame Nkrumah rose to become President of Ghana, an absolute ruler who was thought to be immortal by many of his subjects. But even at the height of his power, he lived in fear of his life, behind heavily guarded walls-calling himself Osagyefo (Redeemer). From 1966 until he died last week of cancer at age 62, in a Bucharest sanitarium where he had gone for treatment, Nkrumah had lived in exile...
Geological events fortuitously placed Texas and other parts of the world over vast deposits of petroleum. But in Texas, just as in the Middle East, Indonesia, Africa, and South America, local populations have benefited all too little from the money pouring into oily coffers far away. See ward Hindley Graduate Student in Anthropology
...reform plan is to gain a majority of the Democratic city committee's 165 votes. Each ward committee is made up of 15 candidates, and voters may choose the entire slate, or vote for individuals...
...city committees presently nominate people for one of the four election commissioners, and select delegates to the state gubernatorial conventions. The reform group hopes to further use ward committees to draft legislation, to lobby and to open channels between the city and its local government...