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Sunday saw a "Jack Straw" opener, followed closely by "Althea" and the rare treat "High Time," which was fittingly dreamy. Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" was given a spin and would have been better had Garcia not had technical problems that forced him to switch guitars for a time...

Author: By Edward MULKERIN Iii, | Title: Dead Again | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...desire to win. Muhammad Ali demonstrated in the ring that speed and power were only the obvious ways in which a black athlete could be agile and courageous. There have been other pathfinders: decathlete Milt Campbell, golfer Charlie Sifford, and in Ashe's own sport the lithe and graceful Althea Gibson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man of Fire and Grace: ARTHUR ASHE (1943-1993) | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

Conservative John Flanagan from West Roxbury, son of District Attorney Newman Flanagan, with 10.9 percent; Joseph Casper from South Boston, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, with 8.2 percent; and Althea Garrison from Dorchester with 4 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Holds Primaries | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

Many Black colleges are in financial trouble and need help from the federal government, said Althea T. L. Simmons, chief lobbyist and director of the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Simmons said the NAACP would lobby for more funding because the budget proposal did not allocate sufficient money for the program...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Strong Rhetoric Belies Modest Changes | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

Woods points out that she was one of the first second-generation Black female graduates of Harvard. Her mother, Althea Woods, a teacher in Los Angeles, graduated from the Education School in 1955. Julie Woods says she is "proud and honored" to be her mother's daughter...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Making Folk Music With a Hard Edge | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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