Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Memphis' first sit-ins, Negroes hit a lunch counter one day, next day moved on to the segregated public libraries. Thirty-six students and five Negro newspapermen were hauled from two libraries, arrested for threatening breach of the peace, disorderly conduct and loitering...
...even as the civil rights impasse seemed to be freezing hard, there were signs of thaw on Southern fringes. In San Antonio, a Negro girl sipped a Coke at a lunch counter previously reserved for whites only. "I feel funny," she said, "but it's nice of them to serve us." San Antonio (pop. 575,000) had responded to appeals from its Negro population (9%) for lunch-counter equality after several meetings of white and Negro clergymen, businessmen and store managers. Opened to Negroes without incident were lunch counters in seven variety and 23 drugstores. Also, six Negro students...
...what was in store for Chinese Christians, and that compromise was useless. But he was not arrested until 1955. The charges: 1) opposing the Communist plan to set up a schismatic Catholicism free of Vatican control, 2) opposing land reform and the Chinese assault on Korea and 3) protecting "counter-revolutionaries...
...counter this criticism, said Jones, CBS will shortly start weekly programs on its five wholly owned TV stations reviewing and "critiquing" the press. "We do not plan to indulge in sophomoric criticism of competing media," he said. "But we do think it might be interesting to review from time to time such things as the placement and juxtaposition of news items. For example, we might want to make some observations regarding the size of type, the headline and front-page position given by some newspapers over the past two or three months to the affairs of Dr. Finch and Carole...
Designed to test the concept of a "remote" defense of the Canal Zone, under which outside troops are rushed in to counter surprise attack, the maneuver showed that Latin America has used its $493 million in U.S. military aid since 1950 to train and equip at least the beginnings of a tough, expert force that can move fast. The performance of the Latin soldiers and flyers was uniformly good, and the Brazilians were so impressive that 82nd Airborne officers talked of picking up some of their techniques. This week, the U.S. will top off Operation Banyan with "Operation Big Slam...