Word: bart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before an all-white male jury in Circuit Judge Alta L. King's Birmingham courtroom last week: Bart A. Floyd, 31, second Ku Klux Klansman to stand trial for castrating a Negro in a deserted Alabama shack last September. The verdict: guilty of mayhem. The sentence, the same administered a fortnight earlier to one of Floyd's partners in crime: 20 years' imprisonment, the maximum sentence under Alabama law. "The sentence," said the Alabama-born Judge King, "is not nearly commensurate with the crime. You have disrupted the friendly relations between the races. You have drawn...
...five girls, one was Joan Bart, a Radcliffe graduate student in Harvard's Russian Studies Program. A 19-year-old girl from the University of Michigan, an 18-year-old student from Scripps College, Calif., who had lived all her life on a cattle ranch, and two working girls who had attended Smith and Mount Holyoke completed the group...
...Fantasyland, reposing behind" Sleeping Beauty's moated castle, where still another ride whisks visitors over a make-believe London, Never-Never Land and Captain Hook's Hideaway. At nearby Frontierland, a Wild West stagecoach and a mule train churn the dust; if business slacks, villainous Black Bart conveniently shoots it out with Sheriff Lucky in a haze of gun smoke, later distributes used cartridge cases to the newly corralled crowd. On Disney's miniature Mississippi, a five-eighths scale stern wheeler carries 9,000 landlubbers daily over waters alive with birchbark canoes paddled by Disney-employed Sioux...
...charge of the programs at Harvard is Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics and General Education. Others working with him are Bart J. Bok, formerly Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, I. Bernard Cohen '37, associate professor of the History of Science. Others include Gerald Hilton, associate professor of Physics and of General Education, Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus...
Since last August, Mr. Gaposchkin has been photographing the southern stars at the Australian Common-wealth Observatory, where former Harvard professor Bart J. Bok will soon assume directorship. Gaposchkin will resume his activities at Harvard next fall. Assisting him in Australia is his 16-year-old son, already an avid mathematician and astronomer. The Gaposchkins have two other children, a son studying electrical engineering as Tufts and a daughter majoring in Slavic languages at Swarthmore...