Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conductor's baton is the original magic wand. Give it to a broken-down piano player and presto!-up pops a shaggy-haired genius, a leader of men, God's gift to music...
...mile relay, Jim Smith whizzed up from fifth place to hand anchor man John Ogden a two-step lead. Ogden held it until the back stretch of the last lap when, apparently jostled by Syracuse's anchor man, he dropped the baton off the raised board track, behind Syracuse, Iona, and Northeastern. He retrieved it in time to finish fourth...
...Baton Rouge, in 1961, police arrested 23 students of Southern (Negro) University for picketing segregated lunch counters. Next day, the Rev. B. Elton Cox, a Congregationalist minister and CORE worker, led 2,000 more students to the courthouse for a peaceful demonstration against the arrests. Cox figured he had permission because Police Chief Wingate White had told him to "confine" his demonstrators to the opposite side of the street...
...Governmental authorities have the duty and responsibility to keep their streets open and available for movement." Indeed, "we emphatically reject the notion urged by appellant" that the First Amendment protects street demonstrations just as much as pure speech. But the Louisiana statute contains no precise standards, and the way Baton Rouge police put it to work, said Goldberg, was "an unwarranted abridgment of appellant's freedom of speech and assembly." Out went the second conviction...
...sand of a dry creek bed while beer cans pop and music from car radios blasts the night air. A current joke at Houston's Bellaire High asks: "What's white and scares teen-agers'?" Answer: the stork. Sherry Watson. 17. a popular member of the baton-twirling Bellaire Belles, is casual about boys. "Why, you've either dated them all once, or else they're like a brother to you and you wouldn't have them...