Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college will accept any Navaho over 18 who applies-even adults who have never spent a day in school. Besides the familiar list of studies, the curriculum includes Navaho language and culture and a variety of vocational and craft courses. Roessel is confident the training will create a labor force that will attract industry to the area, cut the 70% unemployment rate and increase the $680 average yearly family income of reservation Navahos...
Died. W. Preston Battle, 60, Tennessee criminal-court judge who came to national prominence during the non-trial of James Earl Ray for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; of a heart attack; in Memphis. Battle accepted a deal under which Ray pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 99 years in prison. In response to the outcry that followed, the judge argued that a trial would still have left the issue of conspiracy and other questions up in the air. "My conscience," he said, "told me that it better served the ends of justice to accept...
...mechanics employed by American and Pan Am belong to the Transport Workers Union. At the other major carriers, they are members of the International Association of Machinists. Now that the T.W.U. has won the 25.5% package with American, the I.A.M. is unlikely to accept less from the other carriers. Another complicating factor for the airlines is that I.A.M. President Roy Siemiller, who ran the 1966 strike, will retire this June at 68. Siemiller, craggy, bespectacled and steel-hard, doubtless hopes to exit triumphantly with an exceptional agreement...
...Eleanora, updated to the present from Poe, Tim has had to accept the supernatural element more than Poe did. Poe suggests that Eleanora's appearance from the dead came when the narrator (Steven in the movie) was hovering on the edge of total insanity. It was, perhaps, the power of his mental abberration that brought his lover back...
...understand. I could not accept the supernatural the same as anything else. It was inconceivable to me that one could cross the line between the real and the unreal, and dwell there. I could not see that one could merge his soul with a haunted quarry--to make a movie...