Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Associated Press last night reported that one of the season's big football games for Little Rock was scheduled for yesterday evening at the 5,000-seat Central Stadium. By tradition, Negroes do not attend the high school's games and it was not anticipated that any would attempt...
During a ten-day recess in the Little Rock court proceedings. Ronald Davies hurried home to attend a daughter's wedding ("I got there by the skin of my teeth, thank God"). His wife Mildred, who had been keeping "the radio blaring so I'll know whether they've lynched him," noticed that he had lost weight, that his collars were loose around his throat. She noticed something else: when Roman Catholic Ronald Davies knelt for prayer at his bedside, as he has done every night of his life, he remained on his knees longer than usual...
Religion is less in the air at Kenyon (Episcopalian), although the college has its own divinity school, and its 500 students are required to attend chapel. A faculty member has defined the place of religion as "a part of education, like English, biology and math, but certainly a more important part than the others." Despite these points, one official of Kenyon frankly admits: "The Episcopalians and the other major denominations have fellowship groups which are sneered at by about half the campus...
...young. In The Duke's Children. O'Connor touches on the mythology of all the sensitive young who are convinced they must have sprung from nobler loins than those of their earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor to attend his pregnant wife is slowed to an alcoholic crawl by a succession of pubs and pals until the quest finally blurs into a blue forgetfulness; in A Bachelor's Story, crusty Archie Boland comes to the belated knowledge that his one narrow escape from matrimony was actually his last chance...
Army R.O.T.C. graduates will be able to postpone active duty for three years, if they want to attend graduate school, under a policy change announced by the Army recently. The new regulation will go into effect next...