Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this city," Stokes declared at one point. "What we need is action." Actually, he was already on record with his own specifics. To an all-white meeting of policemen, Stokes declared his intention of firing Police Chief Richard Wagner as his first order of business. To a Negro club he promised: "We're going to enforce the law so that it hurts. I don't want any riots in my town." He came up with a plan to economize by selling an obsolescent municipal power plant and a little-used park. At risk of alienating Negro friends...
...hardening terms for peace. He went at the job with vigor. Seemingly popping up everywhere, the King dashed from TV stations to speakers' platforms to conferences. He appeared on Face the Nation, delivered a major address at Georgetown University, had lunch at Washington's National Press Club, talked with President Johnson, Dean Rusk, Ambassador Goldberg and Walt Rostow. Everywhere he went, he told his listeners that the Arabs had seen the error of their ways. They may have been unrealistic in the past, said Hussein, but they had undergone "a very vast and tremendous change...
This year Highland Park has a new star: a straw-haired 16-year-old who is practically a one-man ball club. Play ing quarterback on offense, he has completed 56% of his passes; on the ground, he has gained 705 yds. in 102 carries. He is his team's top scorer, with 83 points. On defense, he plays safety, has intercepted nine passes. He also punts (for an average of 33 yds.), kicks off, boots extra points and field goals. His performance against Turner High three weeks ago was typical. With Highland Park trailing...
...role football plays in their lives varies qualitatively, but to all of them it means a lot of time spent. They head down to Dillon Field House after 4 five afternoons a week and practice lasts until 7:20. Dinner at the Varsity Club and meetings with coaches extend to 9 or 10, after which K-32 becomes boisterously alive for an hour or so. Lights invariably go off before 11:30. Hours for study have to be grabbed on the run, but not in K-32. The room is reserved for light-hearted but loud banter, along with Temptations...
McCarthy began to shine in private meetings. On Monday he lunched with 60 prominent members of this state's peace movement at the Harvard Club of Boston. He began the meeting with a brief moral condemnation of the war. (Throughout the weekend, McCarthy impressed private audiences with the extreme toughness of his anti-war stand...