Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cleve McDowell was the second Ne gro, after James Meredith, to be admit ted to the University of Mississippi. Un like Meredith, Law Student McDowell rarely granted press interviews, made no splash at N.A.A.C.P. meetings, made himself as unobtrusive as possible. But last week, as he hurried up the steps of the law school building for his third day of classes in the new fall term, McDow ell dropped his sunglasses. He stooped to retrieve them - and out of his pocket fell a .22-cal. pistol. When he walked out of class, he was arrested by County Sheriff Joe Ford...
...abundant cash, distributed by its politically savvy chief, James E. Webb, may keep the moon project in funds in spite of its threatened loss of appeal as a U.S. v. Russia horse race. But when space officials put aside their worries about getting money out of Congress, they admit that the moon project has slipped a little, and may slip more. Along with all its scientific and engineering troubles, it has a vital problem of personnel. One man, one savvy administrative expert such as the Navy's Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, who sent the all-important Polaris missile...
...issue of the Commission's legality centers around the enabling legislation which provides that no more than four of its seven members can belong to any one political party. Both Bender and Sanford J. Fox, the other commissioner whose status is in question, admit to changing their affiliation from Republican to Independent less than one week before Gov. Volpe appointed them to the Commission in September, 1962, despite another state law which provides that in qualifying for a state board an individual's party affiliation will be determined by how he was registered two years prior to appointment...
...profit records, the nation's 300,000 small manufacturers complain that the boom is passing them by. Most share the lament of Chairman Glenn H. Friedt Jr. of Detroit's United Platers, Inc., which handles chrome plating for the fast-moving automakers: "I find it embarrassing to admit that this year is no better than last year." Worse yet, Dun & Bradstreet reports that 87% of the nation's 15,800 bankruptcies last year were small businesses, i.e., those with liabilities of less than...
...with me," Frost exhorted Untermeyer, who obligingly struck out at old poetic practice by using Frost as an example of how things should be done. "There are times," Frost was generous to admit, "when I think I am merely the figment of Louis' imagination." But these early letters are notable mainly for Frost's continual cross references to his fellow writers-all of whom he took for enemies and deadly rivals...