Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future, intellectual democracy has had its compensations. After a long period of stagnancy, membership has boomed tenfold since 1958, so that today there are 2,000 members. In the last year, a small platoon of advance guards have infiltrated this country and have already set up a flourishing chapter in New York, and are organizing a new group in the Boston area...
...were, around Boston is a bearded, 23-year-old Englishman who now lives in Revere named Laurie van Someren. Van Someren directed the 30-member Mensa chapter at Cambridge University while an undergraduate there is Trinity College. Already, he told me, there is a nucleus of 12 M's in the Boston area, and the hopes to attract 20 or 30 more, including undergraduates, to make possible fairly regular meetings. What does Mensa do, I wondered...
...community, stocky Curtis Bryant, 44, would be considered a model citizen. A crane operator for the Illinois Central Railroad, he is head of his union local, a Baptist Sunday school teacher and deacon, a Boy Scout committee chairman. But he is also president of his county's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-and that, in McComb, Miss, (pop. 12,020), can apparently be enough to put a man behind bars...
...standards elsewhere, Bryant is far from a militant Negro leader. His 178 N.A.A.C.P. chapter members have dutifully passed the hat to help the national organization, protested unsuccessfully against a few race killings, held a quiet voting drive that only got 250 of Pike County's 15,400 Negroes to register. Says Bryant: "We haven't gone into any radical area...
...Boston chapter of the NAACP will not officially protest the Ivy Films' showing of the movie Birth of a Nation, though it cannot actually give its approval. This is in contrast to the organization's demonstrations against the 1952 ban of the film...