Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Democrats have long been accustomed to the gentlemanly brawling between their factions of Southern conservatives and urban liberals. It is less often that Senate Republicans, so long a minority, have displayed their divisions. Yet the Senate G.O.P. now includes a band of moderates and liberals increasingly disposed to cross party lines to vote with their ideological counterparts on such issues as ABM and civil rights. Last week, as the 43 Republican Senators prepared to select Everett Dirksen's successor as minority leader, the factional lines of stress became clear...
White Cairoites responded with cross burnings and shotgun blasts when blacks attempted to integrate local schools in 1952, clubbings when they sought admittance to a community roller rink ten years later, and firebombings when they demanded appointment of a black police official in 1967. Last week violence erupted again in Cairo as blacks continued to seek a fuller share in the life of their tiny community...
...Monaco's annual Red Cross Gala last month, the remarkable Josephine Baker, 63, sang for the rich and titled of Riviera society. Most of the well-heeled guests at the charity affair knew the entertainer's depressing story of debts and eviction, an unpleasant irony that was not lost on Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. Since then the couple has contributed 10,000 francs toward a down payment on a new home for Josephine and her "fraternité universelle" -twelve adopted children of all races and nationalities. The St. Louis-born singer and her brood, after losing their...
...those qualities: Ellen Stewart, the indefatigable doyenne of off-off-Broad way's experimental Café La Mama. Out of La Mama have come Jean-Claude van Itallie (America Hurrah!), Tom O'Horgan, (director of Futz and Hair), Sam Shepard (the 27-year-old author of Red Cross and Chicago), Leonard Melfi (Jack and Jill) and a host of others. Ellen Stewart announces the evening's program by ringing a homely cowbell. As long as Ellen rings her cowbell, whatever the season brings, the theater is alive...
...freshman and varsity cross country teams got the Harvard intercollegiate sports year off to a good start yesterday afternoon by sweeping the top five places in both of the races against Northeastern at Franklin Park...