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...Booker '75, the co-director, listened to the caller. He asked her questions, listened, then asked more questions. He was willing to listen to all she said because that is Room 13's business. When he finally put down the receiver, he had spent seven hours talking with...

Author: By Hope Scott, | Title: Room 13: A Little Help From Their Friends | 9/27/1974 | See Source »

...only if dialed with care. In Connecticut's area code 203, one digit away from Washington's 202 area code, Roland Booker, a cement finisher, and his wife Mona have the same phone number as the White House. Misdirected calls meant for Richard Nixon have be come part of their lives (three months ago an ambassador rang inquiring what time he should show up for dinner). During resignation week, they received an avalanche of calls urging Nixon to remain in office. But the Bookers have no plans to change their number and frankly enjoy having an accidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wrong Numbers | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...three who agreed to go with the new enterprise: U.S.C. Offensive Tackle Booker Brown and U.C.L.A. Running Backs James McAlister and Kermit Johnson. None of the 26 N.F.L. teams seriously attempted to bid for the California trio; the players went unclaimed through the first five rounds of the N.F.L. college draft. While N.F.L. owners said little about the new threat, they quietly stressed to recruits the value of their league's elaborate fringe benefits -goodies that the W.F.L. cannot yet offer. Ohio State Tackle John Hicks, for instance, considered the W.F.L. but last week came to terms with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Talent War Is On | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Midfielders Bruce Bruckman and Carl Booker both scored twice, and Long Island product Andy Gellis and Greg Jackmauh tallied once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Stickmen Whip UMass, 16-6 | 4/19/1973 | See Source »

...freshman program, education becomes "a double transmission of skill and awareness," and the tone of Miles College becomes part of the classroom experience. The "classroom gold" which Monro has uncovered is a reading list of black authors--Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington and others. "Forget all these ideas that Hamlet is culturally useful," Monro says. "The students need to digest and think about these men and hammer out their feelings in discussions with their peers. Every young black person has awareness built into him. One thing the black college...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: Miles From Harvard: The Black College | 2/7/1973 | See Source »

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