Word: connor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most Birmingham Negroes, just beating the city's tough police commissioner, Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor, in his bid for mayor seemed a major triumph. It was the Negro vote that gave former Lieutenant Governor Albert Boutwell a narrow margin of victory in the April 2 election. Connor had become such a symbol of the nightstick solution to race problems that local Negroes felt certain that they could deal more successfully with Boutwell, even though he is a segregationist...
Reverting to Form. At first, King had trouble mustering any sizable group of Negro troops. When his demonstrators did show up some owners quietly closed their downtown lunch counters, did not even call police. Connor's cops made some routine arrests, but seemed uncommonly gentle about...
After John O'Connor won the 1000 yd. run for H.C. in 2:20.9, Harvard's Hamlin, Meehan, and Dick Hawkins swept the 2-mile run to prove that the Crimson was not helpless in endurance events. Then, just in case somebody was still watching, H.C. ended the meet by winning the 1 and 2 mile relays...
Either system is wasteful: the bees are destroyed. But now. Dr. Rod O'Connor and a team of Montana State College chemists have developed a bee-milking method that allows not only the captured bees but wasps and hornets to produce their poison over and over again in sufficient quantities for research. A whole container of bees is anesthetized with a whiff of carbon monoxide, and then, one at a time, the insects are wrapped in a sash of aluminum foil that is connected to a source of high-voltage, low-current electricity. A brief shock causes the stinging...
With 19 points, Wendelken paced the Holy Cross offense, which sank 35 of 50 field goal attempts. Pete O'Connor, Pat Gallagher, and Tom Palace also scored in two figures for the Crusaders. The Crimson hit on 26 of 55 shots from the floor; Vern Strand scored 17, sophomore Leo Scully had 13 and Pete Kelly...