Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West, there were only red men and white men, but several of the explorers of the Oregon Territory were black, while some 5,000 Negro cowboys roamed the range with Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. A later explorer, Matthew Henson, was Admiral Robert Peary's only companion when he first reached the North Pole, actually beating Peary to the Pole by 45 minutes, thus becoming the first man to stand on top of the world...
...flight from Amsterdam to Paris in 1965, French Astrophysicist Jacques Blamont had a sad tale to tell his traveling companion. Because of faulty equipment, every photographic plate of groups of stars exposed during a complex and expensive balloon-borne telescope experiment had been hopelessly blurred. The companion, University of Michigan Electrical Engineer George Stroke, was less discouraged. "Don't throw anything away," he urged Blamont. "Give me time and I'll get pictures out of your ruined film...
...some other students that had supported McCarthy changed their views. Charles Reynolds 4G collected over 100 student signatures on a telegram to McCarthy urging him to step down. The 100--including several McCarthy campaign workers--also signed a companion telegram encouraging Kennedy to run, should McCarthy leave the race. Both telegrams expressed admiration for McCarthy's political stands...
...these students whom the Executive Committee would like to see join the Metropolitan Council Volunteer Pool. Thus far, however, no decision has been reached regarding the continuation or deailed structure of the other parts of the Tutors Committee program--tutoring in Settlement Houses, other community centers, and Companion ("Big Brother") tutoring. Wes Profit President...
Goddard also supported Johnson's companion request to increase penalties for manufacturing, distributing and selling LSD and such stimulants and depressants as methedrine (speed) and phenobarbital. Under the bill, possession of the drugs would become a federal offense for the first time (some 24 states now have laws prohibiting possession of LSD). Manufacture, distribution and sale, federal misdemeanors punishable by up to a year and a $1,000 fine, would become felonies with penalties of up to five years...