Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fisher said that Shepard's presentation attracted a much larger audience than any of the Laboratory's previous meetings William Warntz of the American Geographic Society one of the country's leading geographers, flow in from New York especially to attend the meeting...
...high rate of compliance should not hide the minimal progress that has been made. While the office of Education can claim some credit for speeding the integration process, the fact remains that only 6.01 per cent of Negroes in the 11 Southern states now attend schools with whites. (For the six borders states and the District of Columbia the figure is a heal their 68.9 per cent.) Commissioner of Education Harold Howe II has said that he hopes the new guidelines will raise the percent-age in the deep South this fall to 12 per cent. But an official...
Life for a Life. The 1966 bill, going even beyond its predecessors, would make the murder of a civil rights worker, or the slaying, for racial reasons, of anyone else exercising certain fundamental rights, such as voting or seeking to attend school, a federal crime with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. At present, the most that a defendant in such cases can get in a federal court is ten years...
...killed President Abdul Salam Aref (TIME, April 22), Egypt's President Nasser wanted to be sure that Iraq's new ruler would be as friendly to Egyptian aims as Aref. Off to Baghdad went Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's No. 2 man, ostensibly to attend Aref's funeral but essentially to see that Nasser got what he wanted. Last week, with a nudge from the Egyptians, Iraq's Cabinet and top generals picked an underdog as Aref's successor. The new President: Abdel Rahman Aref, 50, the dead President's older...
...plans. When the revolution comes, Papa's bank account, position, all go into the Red. The family must eat; Vladimir, the hothouse flower, protected and indulged during his first 17 years, blossoms into a full-time professional pianist at 18. Only 200 people -most of them admitted free - attend his first concert. At the second, there are more paying customers. The third is a sellout. The career and the reputation gather velocity but not money. Vladimir is paid with bread, sausages, clothing; he is, literally, the family breadwinner...