Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Communist" and "nigger lover." Restlessly, the mob moved to the Foremans' frame cottage, stoned the family's black-and-white dog. "Look," cried one woman, "even their dog's integrated." When police shooed the women away, they went to a hospitable neighbor's lawn, where self-styled "cheerleaders" chanted their favorite doggerel: "Nigger lover, nigger lover, nigger lover, Jew: we hate niggers, we hate you." In front of the shabby public-housing apartment where the Gabrielles live, a crowd of children waved Confederate flags and piped: "All I want for Christmas is a clean white school...
...Gaulle gets his expected large majority in the Jan. 8 referendum and deals firmly with the threat of violence from the European extremists in Algeria, the way will then be open for Bourguiba and his allies to act as neutral observers in Algeria's eventual vote on self-determination, thus giving the F.L.N. rebels "serious guarantees" that it will be a fair referendum. Then the F.L.N. could achieve power by peaceful political process. Explained a Tunisian official: "If De Gaulle's latest behavior reflects a sincere desire to decolonize Algeria-and we think it does-there will soon...
...million, PACD has raised rice production through village-scaled irrigation projects to as high as 5,000 Ibs. per acre (nearly five times the Philippine average), re-seeded fishermen's depleted oyster beds, supplied farmers with 10,000 brood sows and helped set up barrio councils to promote self-government. In the process, PACD has made itself the Philippines' most effective weapon against the still-present Communist-led Hukbalahap guerrillas, whose strength has always rested on the misery of the islands' 19 million barrio residents...
India, too, shares in the nationalistic aspirations of the world, declared a third panelist, N. B. Menon, First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Washington. "To us, also, nationalism is a liberating, vigorous force--and not something to be ashamed of," he emphasized. A self-declared "peace-loving, neutralist man," Mr. Menon subsequently modified this assertion by posing the question: "What is nationalism but real estate...
Disagreeing with Isaacs, George Pettingill, director of the International Student Association in Cambridge declared, "We must listen to what other nations desire in us. We cannot talk to ourselves alone." One of the basic problems in transmitting our image, he declared, is that we are too self-assured in our opinions. We seldom bother to see our actions through the eyes of the rest of the world...