Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispute, Village Chief Albert S. Kaloa dispatched a telegram informing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall: "We are not savages but civilized human beings in need. If we were savages, we would have your bloody scalp in the potlatch immediately." Added Kaloa: "We suggest you come down off Kilimanjaro and attend to the needs of the people of Alaska as we pay you to do." Such badgering had its effect: declaring in 1964 that the Indians were the rightful owners of any mineral deposits, the Interior Department provided federal help in working out an economic-development program for the suddenly wealthy village...
Tennis is a curiosity among competitive sports: the players outnumber the spectators. An estimated 8,500,000 Americans play tennis, but only a handful ever attend top amateur or professional tournaments. The reason, according to James Van Alen, 63, president of the tennis Hall of Fame, is the sport's 85-year-old scoring system, which belabors spectators with archaic terminology ("love," "deuce," "advantage"), places no time limit on the duration of a match, and encourages a brand of play-the wham-slam "big game"-that often makes the match a bore to watch. Van Alen's answer...
...preacher would be marrying Corrine Annette Huff, 25, a onetime Miss Ohio who was the first Negro to compete in the Miss U.S.A. contest. "Absolutely untrue," fumed Adam when the story caught up with him on a European junket. Having thus squelched the item, he flew off to attend a labor conference in Geneva. Right beside him was the apple he calls "Huffie," who labors away as an assistant to Adam's House Education and Labor Committee, at $18,600 per annum...
...Adolf Hitler rejected an invitation to attend a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...
...provide some form of voluntary training, the Harvard Regiment was organized. The Regiment, which attracted nation-wide attention, gave its 1200 student members training in military tactics, taught them how to use rifles and expected them to attend one lecture a week in military science. In March, 1916, 52 students organized an zero corps to train Harvard men as aviators to fight with the United States Army in case...