Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk, Stanley Russell Schrotel looks like a corporation executive and talks like a university professor. But Stan Schrotel (rhymes with motel) is, in fact, a cop, a man who makes his living as Cincinnati's chief of police. And at a time when the rising wave of crime has become a major national problem, Police Chief Schrotel, 47, has earned the reputation of being just about the best...
...controversial aid for teachers' salaries. To sweeten an allotment of $325 million for school construction, congressional leaders passed the word that the funds could also be used to pay off debts for past construction-a ploy calculated to charm Congressmen from the South, which has had a wave of classroom construction...
...Late. For Berliners, the wall measured itself out in forbidding miles of personal tragedy. They gathered in little groups on both sides of the wall to wave handkerchiefs or shout cautiously worded greetings, sometimes climbing trees for a better look. ''My wife's over there with our little boy," explained one young Berliner looking east from Gartenstrasse. "We lived over there, but we knew we had to get out, so I rented a room over here and started bringing our things over a little at a time. They stayed there to cover up until...
...force in South Africa is Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Confidently he has called new general elections for October, 18 months ahead of schedule. Among the great majority of South African whites who fearfully cling to Verwoerd's white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak and divided; the timing...
While Kenyatta was in prison, the 1952-57 Mau Mau uprising was beaten down, but the political tension on which it was built never subsided. The wave of African nationalism would not recede, and the unrelenting pressure for freedom by the colony's 5,500,000 blacks began to tell. Kenya's economy faltered: $2,800,000 in white-settler capital left Kenya weekly, and 800 of the colony's 3,600 white-settler farms went up for sale. In 1960 Sir Patrick Renison still denounced Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death...