Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gonna Move In." Limited disarmament was only a stopgap. McKeithen wanted civil rights demonstrations-which had been specifically sanctioned by federal court order-ended for 30 days so that a durable settlement could be sought. From the state capital at Baton Rouge, he sent his personal plane to Bogalusa to fetch A. Z. Young and Robert Hicks, Voters League president and vice president. "If we don't find the answers in 30 days, you can start demonstrating again," McKeithen told them. He vowed to rid Bogalusa of two of the noisiest white agitators: "I'll have them...
...summer music festivals-among them George Szell, Charles Munch, Zubin Mehta and Georg Solti. Fronted with such competition, Celibi-dache's debut with the Czech Philharmonic was a stunning triumph. He realized, raved one critic, "qualities of the orchestra which until now we could only imagine." Under his baton, Hindemith's Metamorphosis "became a new discovery," Brahms's Fourth Symphony "a perfection of color and dynamics as we have never heard before...
Louisiana's Governor John McKeithen not long ago made a dramatic and significant gesture: he flew to Jonesboro, a small town 160 miles from Baton Rouge, where for three weeks half the 500 students in the Negro high school had been cutting classes and protesting lack of facilities. McKeithen swiftly took care of their grievances, explaining: "I didn't want another Selma." When the Klan protested his sensible action, 15 citizens burned an oil-soaked "Z" at an intersection to express their opinion of the Klan's worth-zero. The Governors' attitude is perhaps best summed...
Harvard added victories in both relays. In the sprint relay, anchorman Hauck took the baton in third place and just caught his rivals a few yards from the tape. It was the beginning of a great little day for the sophomore from England, who had failed to perform up to expectations in the Dartmouth and Brown meets...
...sprint relay, Darrell Watts and company posted their best time of the season. 0:43.6, and coasted to victory when a Dartmouth runner fumbled the baton...