Word: civilizations
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...Negro population, and got only 10% of its vote. Since taking office, he has repeatedly voiced his desire to establish a better rapport with Negroes, but has been unable to persuade any leading black figure to join his government. Last week the President announced the appointment of a noted civil rights leader, James Farmer, to a top Administration post-one that will be used deliberately to assuage and assist the black community...
...from Wiley College. Seemingly a natural for the pulpit (he had won a $1,000 prize for oratory), Farmer got a divinity degree from Howard University but was never ordained. He was repelled by the then segregationist policies of the Methodist Church, which inevitably led him into the infant civil rights movement. For the next 28 years, he dedicated himself to the black revolution...
...defendants to be tried, Private Nesrey D. Sood, 26, a father of three from Oakland, Calif., was found guilty. He was given 15 years at hard labor, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and an eventual dis honorable discharge. "I am shocked," said Paul Halvonik, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who defended Sood. "Fifteen years for going out and singing and raising his fingers in a 'V is absurd." Sood, a draftee who had gone AWOL last September because he heard that his wife was neglecting their children back home, was due for discharge at Fort Lewis, Wash...
...Harvard Theatre Collection dates from 1915, when Robert Gould Shaw, class of 1869, a cousin of the Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who led the first Negro regiment in the Civil War, gave the University his private theatre collection...
...steel corporation who receives an allowance o $500,000 a year as a quitclaim on the empire founded by his great-great-grandfather; and Princess Henriette von Auersperg, 35, elegant blonde daughter of one of Austria's oldest (13th century) houses; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony in Blühnbach castle former retreat of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World...