Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ahead-perhaps not too far ahead. Arraigned in court at Johannesburg under the tough emergency regulations, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, head of the militant Pan-African Congress, was defiant. "We are going underground," he warned even as the legislators in Cape Town took the final vote to ban both his group and the bigger, older African National Congress. The nervous police soon got proof that this was not an idle boast. Scores of A.N.C. leaders had escaped arrest in the confusion of the first raids; ten of them, including young Joe Matthews, head of the A.N.C. Youth League, and Moses Mahhida...
...Fair Players. All this sentiment got a loud echo in Manhattan last week from something called "the Fair Play for Cuba Committee," a group of 28 including Sartre, his friend Simone de Beauvoir, Novelists Norman Mailer and Truman Capote (who explained that "my stepfather is Cuban"), and British-born New Yorker Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan ("Americans tend to judge a regime on the extent to which it likes America"). In a seven-column, $4,725 ad in the New York Times, the Fair Players charged that the U.S. press is deliberately distorting the news from Cuba. Item: press reports...
...wish that this cross of the Lord Jesus might be forgotten. All too often Christians themselves wish that they might be allowed to forget it; for when the people cried "His blood be on us and on our children!"'they shouted not as the spokesmen of any religious group, but as the representatives of the whole human race. The Christian church has never taught anything less than this...
...Yale, a group called Challenge, which debates the burning issues of the day, debated the sitdowns, inspired visiting students to organize rallies championing sitdowns on their own campuses...
Then the researchers took batches of identical mice. Into one group they injected the leukemic brain fluid. Virtually all of these developed leukemia. But a second group got an injection of purified serum from the prisoners' blood before the leukemic brain fluid. Only half of these got leukemia. Dr. Schwartz's conclusion: the prisoners, being healthy and not predisposed to leukemia, had reacted the way most normal human beings do, and had made antibodies against the leukemia virus in the brain fluid. These antibodies made their serum work like a crude vaccine, which protected half the mice...