Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special session--which the Business School will authorize if 120 students agree to attend--would allow the students to receive their MBA degrees by mid-January, 1969, Richard L. Nohl, the school's director of student personnel, said yesterday...
...funeral in Atlanta was counterpointed by resonant spirituals and the elegiac toll of mourning bells. The difference was essentially that between black and white, Baptist and Catholic, soul and suzerainty. There were the predictable and publicized responses-the Academy Awards were postponed so that Negro entertainers could attend the funeral; baseball's major leagues likewise delayed their opening day-and a degree of political grandstanding. But the tributes rendered last week to King nonetheless added up to a moment in the national life that will not soon be forgotten...
Required by the city government to attend, some Houston police grumbled, read paperbacks or worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver...
...SCLC, endorsed by the National Council of Churches, requested that supporters attend Dr. King's funeral in Atlanta on Tuesday and then go to Washington to issue their demands...
...classes or staging sit-ins outside them, even after signs went up threatening expulsion-and a loss of draft exemption. At Cracow's Ja-gellonian University, students staged a sitdown strike for two days running. Warsaw University authorities locked the campus gates when thousands of students refused to attend lectures. At War saw's Polytechnical Institute, some 5,000 students sacked out in the hallways, playing cards, listening to Chopin tapes and tuning in Western news broadcasts, including reports on Czechoslovakia, where just the sort of liberalization they are demanding is unfolding. At week...