Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irish Catholic for President, and added: "There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has." And at Columbia, S.C., Howard University President James Madison Nabrit Jr. told the graduating class of Negro Benedict College: "Swifter than you can imagine, you will have all the rights and privileges of every other citizen in the U.S." That time cannot come too swiftly for young Negroes of 1961-and the John Pattersons of the South can do little to stop them...
Born. To Gamble Benedict Porumbeanu, 20, runaway Manhattan "heiress," and Andrei Porumbeanu, 36, unemployed Rumanian-born charmer: their first child, a son; in Montclair...
...Columbia, South Carolina's capital, 150 Negro students from Allen University and Benedict College forced three lunch counters to close, were seated but refused service at two others...
...Benedict's Abbey, near Aspen, Colo., has a 3,800-acre ranch, 500 head of cattle-and monks who ride horses like cowboys. The monks' reputation for quality is so good that Denver stockyards buy their cattle sight unseen...
...actor, was superb as Luciano-full of gutter cynicism, arrogance, brutality, and yet at moments pathetic. The show's spontaneity derived partly from the fact that the lawyers involved were real, some of the best courtroom performers in New York (Richard Steel William Geoghan Jr., Charles Haydon,' Benedict Ginsberg), who ad-libbed much of their argument. On the griddle this week: Huey Long. Later: Arnold Rothstein, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, and former New York Mayor James J. Walker...