Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbol of Revolt. Ironically, it was the violence of Martin Luther King's death rather than the nonviolence of his methods that ultimately broke the city's resistance. Loeb, 47, a wealthy Southern patrician-turned-politician, relented on the critical issue of union recognition only after the assassination and under concerted pressure from the White House (through Labor Under Secretary James Reynolds), civil rights and labor leaders, and his own increasingly irritated local establishment. While many white Memphians initially supported Loeb's stand, they soon fretted over their city's fading image and the threat...
Brown's Rick Buck broke a 4-4 deadlock at the beginning of the fourth period on a short flip shot from the right of the net, but Ince came right back to score two goals on fast breaks and put the Crimson ahead...
Baker's 4:02.2 broke Shaw's University record of 4:02.8. Shaw finished in 4:04.2 and third-placer Doug Hardin in 4:07.3. Andreini's 4:09 got him nothing but fourth place and sympathy...
...Harvard broke six meet records and won twelve of the eighteen events...
Harvard filled the air with record throws. In the javelin sophomore Frank Champi set a new university record with a toss of 224'1", thirteen feet beyond his previous best. Shot-putter Dick Benka set a meet record with a toss of 56 feet and Ron Wilson broke the stadium record with a 167 foot discus throw. Charley Ajootian set a personal record with a 187 foot hammer toss...