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Word: wideness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waive immunity before a grand jury. Addonizio faces tough opposition if he decides to seek re-election in May. While the city's blacks are politically divided, Addonizio has a determined challenger on the right. City Councilman Anthony Imperiale, an Independent whose anti-black stand has won him wide support from Newark's white lower middle class, has already announced his intention of running for mayor. For Newark voters who truly want to make the city a community of which they can be proud, the election shapes up as not much of a choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Crackdown in New Jersey | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...continue to wane as men seek personal identity in group identity. That, of course, involves a contradiction between "doing one's own thing" and doing it with others. Still, Marshall McLuhan predicts confidently: "We are going through a tribal cycle once again, but this time we are wide awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The '60s to The 70s: Dissent and Discovery | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...crested 36 feet above normal. Whole villages vanished. Thirty-five major bridges were washed away, and the map of Tunisia was drastically revised. At least 1,000,000 livestock drowned and 10,000 olive trees were uprooted. The Zeroud and Marguelil rivers, swirling together, created a torrent eight miles wide. The force was so great that 100-ton concrete slabs, used to anchor bridges, were hurled downstream. An irrigation project that took two years and $7,000,000 to construct was washed away in six hours. As late as last week the Mediterranean was still an oozing ochre sore from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunisia: The Big Flood | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...member of the Afro-American Studies Department who helped organize the meeting said that the primary purpose was to create "a wide-ranging organization of black faculty and administrators." Such an organization, he said, could then take effective stands on issues like the Organization for Black Unity (OBU)'s demand that Harvard hire 20 per cent black and "Third World" workers...

Author: By Leonard S. Edgerly, | Title: Black Members of Faculty Try Forming United Front | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

...presentation of any coed proposals will be quite different. This spring Mather will have a House Committee, which can work on such proposals with authority and coordinated effort. By this spring, also, a University-wide poll on the desirability of coed living will be completed. Master von Stade has placed much importance on the out-come of this pall. Finally, the exchanges at the other three Houses will provide evidence for or against the practicability of coed living at Harvard. So the unique opportunity for starting coed living at a new House is not yet lost. If no coed living...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: Coeducation Girls at Mather | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

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