Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group, calling itself the International Witnesses Against Genocide, has called a meeting for 6 p.m. tonight in Phillips Brooks House. The Witnesses will be asking people around the nation, and, they hope, around the world, to wear a black star with the word IBO in it, as a reminder of the yellow star "once imposed upon the victims of another 'final solution'" of the Nazis. Ibo is the name of a Biafran tribe...
...culture is intellectual free dom and debate." Sakharov charges that censorship has not only killed "the living soul" of Soviet literature, but is stifling fresh ideas in other creative fields as well. He therefore calls for the abolition of Glavlit, the omnipotent censorship department that rules over the printed word in the Soviet Union, and urges its replacement by new and liberal press laws...
...late Monday, rumors of Pompidou's dismissal were racing about Paris, but the Elysée remained noncommittal. Finally, on Tuesday, Pompidou was summoned to the palace to receive the word in person from De Gaulle, and their exchange of correspondence was released to the press. Then Pompidou went to a caucus of the newly elected Gaullist Deputies in the National Assembly. Most of them were angry that a vote getter as effective as Pompidou had been sidetracked in favor of a man who is anything but a crowd pleaser. But Pompidou, though he was bitterly hurt...
Adams nonetheless patented his battery in 1943. Then ten years later, the Army got a patent of its own-without a word to Adams-and ordered more than a million batteries built to its own design. Sure that he had been bilked, Bert went to court. Six other men, who had backed the invention, joined the suit. Not until 1966 did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Bert's patent had indeed been infringed. Last February the lawyers involved agreed that the Government should pay $2,500,000 in damages...
...steady roar--the wit of so many of his lines gets lost in the over-blown bustle. This is not the actor's fault but follows from the director's faulty conception of the play. Hunter is more controlled in the scene (in both senses of the word) with his bedridden wife (Sheila Hart...