Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Very often, crisis calls for solutions not to be found in any textbook. At Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, when relatives of an old man complained that he wandered about the house late at night, knocking over furniture and hitting them when they objected, the hospital suggested installing a night light. With this practical solution, which permitted an old man with weak kidneys to find his way to the bathroom, the family emergency passed...
...predominantly Negro Atlanta University Center, 100 students held 22 trustees prisoner for 29 hours until the trustees agreed, among other things, to amnesty for their captors. President Buell Gallagher of New York's City College found himself in the familiar dilemma between repression and submission when a couple of hundred students locked the gates. He chose to close the school to its 20,000 students while negotiating with the rebels. Other schools under varying degrees of siege last week included Princeton, Fordham, Tulane, Dartmouth, Howard and Hampton Institute in Virginia...
Even to a nation which is becoming accustomed to news of campus unrest, it was a week to be worried about. In addition to the turmoil at Harvard, there were sit-ins or strikes at Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Atlanta, Kent State in Ohio, Queens College in New York, Mount St. Mary's in Maryland, Albright College in Pennsylvania, Southern University in Louisiana. The potential dangers from continuing disorders at U.S. schools was brought into sharp relief when the American Council on Education, which represents 1,500 institutions and associations of higher learning, issued a stern four-page warning...
Married. Major General Yakubu Gowon, 34, Nigerian chief of state; and Victoria Zakari, a 22-year-old nurse; in an Anglican ceremony in Lagos. As a wedding offering for the bride and groom, Gowon's generals, recalling Sherman's Christmas present of Atlanta to President Lincoln, promised to capture Umuahia, the last major Bi-afran-held town...
...bulk of the contents consists of a transcript of a four-way discussion that took place in Atlanta last year. Two of the participants were black, Lawrence C. Howard and Vincent Harding; and two were white, Myron B. Bloy, Jr., and an education reporter whose identity is withheld owing to his publisher's policy...