Word: akron
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Elsewhere, seven members of the Associated Press Top Twenty advanced, led by No. 3 Kentucky. The Wildcats mauled Davidson 75-55, No. 4 St. John's downed Montana State 83-74, No. 5 Michigan held off Akron 70-64, No. 9 Syracuse buried brown 101-52, No. 11 Nevada-Las Vegas swamped Northeast Louisiana 74-51 Navy whipped Tulsa 87-68 and No. 19 Illinois walloped Fairfield...
...preachers themselves. Graham caused such a sensation that his 1950 advent on ABC radio was foreordained. He made his TV debut the following year. Weekly shows, the basic unit of TV programming, did not begin until traveling Revivalist Rex Humbard happened by a crowd gazing into an Akron department-store window. Fashion < show? Puppets? No, a TV set. By 1953 Humbard was telecasting services weekly and in 1958 opened the splashy, 5,000-seat Cathedral of Tomorrow, the first church designed to be a TV studio. In 1955, at Humbard's urging, Oral Roberts began telecasting weekly films of himself...
...college auditorium on Thursday afternoon was attended by her parents, holding hands in the front row, and more than 1,000 friends, faculty and students. "Christa McAuliffe is infinite because she is in our hearts," said Charles Sposato, a Framingham high school teacher. At Temple Israel in Akron, Governor Richard Celeste of Ohio told Judy Resnik's parents and friends, "She knew she would be at home in space. And she was. And she is." At North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, where Ron McNair studied physics, the choir sang old spirituals, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...child in Akron, where her father was an optometrist, she practiced the piano religiously for an hour every day, even though she often hated it. As a student at Akron's Firestone High School, she was a member of the honor society, the French club, the chemistry club and the math club (the only girl among 15 boys), and had perfect scores of 800 on her Scholastic Aptitude Tests. "I can still see this little, short brunet in bobby socks and saddle shoes, quiet as a mouse," said Donald Nutter, a math teacher. "If you had a question...
Note: Though probably not intentionally, the Adventures have two links to the Akron, Ohio band Devo: the drummer's name is Spud, and the hats worn on the cover look remarkably like those on the cover of Freedom of Choice...