Word: homestead
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After his second year in England, Stauder returned to Ethiopia for two more years to do research. He went back to Cambridge for two final years of doctoral study, receiving his Ph. D. in 1968. His dissertation was entitled. "Homestead and Settlement among the Majangir of Southwestern Ethiopia...
...memorial park, located on the site of the DuBois family homestead just north of the town, was and is the subject of a heated controversy among the town's residents. The John Birch Society, the American Legion, and the Daughters of the American Revolution bitterly opposed the creation of the park. They said they were opposed because DuBois was a member of the Communist Party the last years of his life...
...HOMESTEAD, Fla.-While Air Force One waited at Holmstead Air Force Base yesterday to take President Nixon back to Washington, a Cuban MIG-17 paid a surprise visit...
...foolhardy enough to make speeches is fair game for the press. CIA Director Richard Helms learned that the hard way when he tried to speak off the record to the Business Council at the Homestead Inn in Hot Springs, Va. Arguing that anything Helms had to say to 125 of the nation's top business executives could hardly endanger national security, reporters pleaded with the CIA chief for at least a briefing. They even carried their complaints to the Administration's communications director, Herb Klein, in Washington. Helms turned Klein down...
...rebuff sent most reporters off to gripe among themselves in the Homestead's bars. But not U.P.I.'s James Srodes, 29, a former Atlanta Journal political reporter. Trying not to be noticed, the 6-ft. 5-in., 280-lb. reporter poked about for ways to eavesdrop on the superspy-and stumbled into his story. Wandering into the kitchen, Srodes was amazed to discover Helms' speech being amplified through a kitchen intercom so that the help would know when to clear tables without disturbing speakers. In his talk, Helms described Ho Chi Minh as "an utterly cold-blooded...