Word: banners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearest available symbol of the Khomeini regime: some 40,000 often militant Iranian students attending U.S. colleges and universities. Many Americans suddenly decided that these students were no longer welcome. New York Congressman Leo Zeferetti called for the immediate deportation of the Iranians who had dangled a 140-ft. banner from the Statue of Liberty demanding: THE SHAH MUST BE TRIED AND PUNISHED. After wrapping up his report last Thursday night, Cleveland Sportscaster Gibb Shanley set fire to a small Iranian flag. "I know it's not sports," he explained to his television audience, "but it is an Iranian...
THEIR REAL PROBLEM, now and possibly in the long run, is Kennedy. Labor leaders who were carping about the existing two parties only a few months ago have already started flocking to the Kennedy banner. United Auto Workers chief Doug Fraser, head of the Progressive Alliance, has put out the word his energies will now be spent touting Teddy. And there's a good chance the Citizens ambitions for 1984 will be foiled by Kennedy in the Oval Office...
...Kucinich grew up in a large Catholic family in the inner city. His father is a truck driver who quit school after the ninth grade. As mayor, Kucinich forced business leaders to meet with him at Tony's Diner. He hopes to unite blacks and white ethnics under his banner of "urban populism." It is this vision of "the coalition of the future" that makes Kucinich unique...
Putnam and the Corporation investigated different techniques of managing investments, and decided on an independent, private management company devoting its entire attention to Harvard--if they could attract the investment talent they wanted. They could, partly because 1974 was not a banner year for the financial community, "partly because Harvard is Harvard, and partly because managers could get out of the cut-throat Wall Street world and work for an institution that they find morally and socially uplifting," Putnam says...
...WORLD. As evening fell, a solemn, subdued crowd of Americans watched as the Stars and Stripes was lowered-for the last time-at the U.S.-operated headquarters of the Panama Canal Co. Next morning an animated group of Panamanians cheered as their country's white, red and blue banner was run up a new flagpole atop bush-covered Ancon Hill. The Panama Canal Zone, the 648-sq.-mi. enclave that had been under U.S. sovereignty since 1903, had ceased to exist. Its absorption by Panama was the first step in a process that will give that country control...