Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week observed the first anniversary of their strike against the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills with hand-clapping choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Solidarity Forever. Carrying U.S. and Confederate flags, joined by hundreds of gift-bearing sympathizers, members of Locals 578 and 584, Textile Workers Union of America, jammed Henderson's National Guard armory, raised the rafters with well-tuned pentecostal voices and stood reverently as Mrs. Nannie Hughes, a millworker for 45 years, besought the Almighty. "Dearest Lord," implored Grandmother Hughes in an eight-minute prayer, "look especially into the heart of one so hard and bitter...
...billion by the turn of the century. And because the first impact of modern medical techniques on a primitive society is a startling drop in the death rate, the bulk of this explosive population increase has occurred in the underdeveloped nations: the combined population of Asia, Africa and Latin America has increased by 600 million since 1936, is expected to jump another billion...
Delegates to last week's convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of America in Toledo, Ohio, also nominated two members of the local group, Derek T. Winans '60 and David W. Adamany '58 for newly created executive positions...
Henry A. Kissinger, associate director of the Harvard Center for International Affairs, will give Sunday the first in a two-part lecture series of the Ford Hall Forum, exploring the relative strengths of the United States and the Soviet Union. His talk will deal with America as a world power...
...MUSIC OF AMERICA. Tom Denny presents music by Howard Hansen...