Word: akron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...circumstances. After talking, Snow sipped tea, nibbled sandwiches, and allowed that he is very fond of the U.S. "I like the enormous intelligence of the people, the astonishing variety of virtue and skill. The top echelons of Leicester wouldn't compare with the top echelons of, say, Akron, Ohio...
...handful publicly supported-have voted to organize unions. Among the most recent was the faculty of the University of Hawaii, who had been refused pay raises for two years. Similar votes may be held later this year at the universities of Massachusetts, Nebraska, Washington and Wisconsin, and at Akron, Kent State and Syracuse universities. In California, where professors rebuffed Walter Reuther's efforts to organize them in the 1960s, the 11,000 teachers at the 19 campuses of the state university and colleges seem likely to unionize within the next couple of years. Even occasional setbacks, such as last...
Just before the Jefferson Airplane went on stage in Akron, another rock group urged the 12,000 people in the audience to dance on the neighboring football field of Akron University, despite the fact that it had been freshly seeded. Outside the stadium, kids threw rocks, and Chick Cassady, the Airplane's manager, allegedly encouraged the youngsters to do battle with the police. When the tear gas cleared, the cops had arrested Cassady, the Airplane's Paul Kantner and Kantner's "old lady" Grace Slick, who either attacked the fuzz or-depending on who was telling...
...worse, others say, is the havoc wreaked on families by Armstrong's unyielding doctrines. One of those doctrines forbids members to undergo any medical treatment. According to ex-Elder John Judy of Akron, a 40-year-old Ohio woman with a history of heart disease died a few months after her minister put her on a diet consisting only of grape juice; the minister did not object when she substituted grape soda. Mrs. Henry W. Peterson of Seattle relates that the W.C.G. broke up her second marriage, of 24 years' standing, because it does not recognize civil divorce...
...results so far this season have been devastating. At the start of the campaign, the squad was "just learning to work together," Phillips said, and narrowly squeaked by Akron and Newark Engineering by identical 2-1 scores. "They're playing a lot better now and scoring a lot more goals," Phillips said...