Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harlem has the highest juvenile delinquency rate in the country; Harlem also has Rep. Adam Clayton Powell...
Powell set out as if he wanted to insure that his project would be criticized. He served as one of the incorporators of the project's parent corporation, Associated Community Teams, Inc (ACT). He rented office space in the Adam Clayton Powell Community Center to ACT at $24,000 a year. When the first head of the Corps proved unable to get the project underway, Powell turned it over to Livingstone Wingate, his former administrative assistant. Wingate became director of ACT at a $16,000 a year salary...
...from there. Someone tagged ''Dick Nixon'' streaked across the stage in a track suit. "What's he running for?" asked a bystander. Replied an actor representing Republican National Chairman William E. Miller: "Exercise." Somebody else wanted to know what freewheeling, freeloading Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. did for a living. "I have two jobs," replied Powell's standin. "Living it up and living it down...
...Soviet regime--that could have been answered. Dr. Zhivago was truly a subversive because he rejected root and branch the whole concept of the revolution. He rejected it by ignoring it, by transcending it through his love for Lara. "You and I," Zhivago tells Lara, "are like Adam and Eve, the first two people who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with--and now at the end of it we are just as naked and homeless...
Coach Corey Wynn said that Adam's "quick disposal of West in the Yale match spurred the team on to a resounding 8-1 victory." Adams will probably be the only member of the freshman squad to move into the varsity lineup next year...