Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drafted into the Army during World War II, Abernathy used his G.I. bill to attend Alabama State College, graduating in 1950 with honors in sociology. He stayed on to teach history and counsel students, and took up preaching for $40 a Sunday at a tiny church in Demopolis. His gutbucket style gained him quick recognition, and in 1951 he was named pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he also joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call...
...board of education supposedly retained only the supervisory authority, but from the start, there were quarrels over divisions of responsibility. School-board officers feared that the committee had been taken over by Black Power advocates. White teachers balked at accepting the local group's authority and refused to attend meetings. The committee's appointment of four principals, who were chosen without regard to civil service rankings, was struck down by the state Supreme Court. By late spring, 70 teachers and 18 assistant principals, all white, had applied for transfers out of the district...
There are hundreds of less noble, but no less valid, examples. Coleen Dishon of the Chicago Daily News had a phony invitation printed so her society editor could attend the 1967 wedding of Republican Senator Charles Percy's daughter Sharon Lee to Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV. Crusty Harry Romanoff, 76, of the Chicago American never leaves his desk, built a spectacular career on telephone impersonation. Known to admiring colleagues as "the Heifetz of the telephone," Romanoff achieved his greatest performance in covering the 1966 mass murder of eight Chicago student nurses, when he 1) extracted the gory details...
...sponsor a gala treasure hunt today, commencing at 11 a.m. on the steps of the Lampoon Building. Graciously and in the true spirit of comradeship, the renowned Ibis has consented to serve as treasure. The hunt should be over in time for afternoon exams, and all are welcome to attend, even the Lampoon members...
...subsidiary for the spread of his ideas in universities, the "dropouts" officially don't exist. Spokesmen like Jerry Jarvis, head of SIMS's American branch, soothe their eager audiences with repeated assurances that meditation works for everyone, that nothing can go seriously wrong. In fact, every novice must attend lectures given on the three consecutive nights after his initiation, which supposedly are "advance instruction," allowing one to "refine" his technique. In fact, these "lectures" were question-and-answer periods, and gave me my first feelings of uneasiness about the movement...