Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added that should be burned-and you know it." One item that particularly inflamed him was a textbook that called Patrick Henry an "agitator." Maddox said he had been raised to think of Henry as a hero. The audience of educators and school-board members replied with scattered applause. Cross burning may be a dying art in the South, but if Maddox has his way, book burning will replace...
Yankee Bargain. In 1960, the movement began to cross Massachusetts' borders, helped immeasurably by an implicit appeal to regional traditions. For one, the basic unit of government in New England is the town, and commissions fit easily into the scheme of town meetings. For another, given state and federal matching funds, the local governments were able to buy open land by putting up as little as 25% of the money. No Yankee could resist such a bargain...
Fosdick was a longtime pacificist and once thundered to League of Nations delegates in Geneva that "the church has come down through history too often trying to carry the cross of Jesus in one hand and a dripping sword in the other." He energetically supported a host of social causes, and well after his retirement he continued to work against the war in Viet Nam and in behalf of the black population that lived in poverty not far from Riverside's neo-Gothic splendor. "Always take a job that's too big for you," he once proposed...
...major observatories of the next ten years will be connected with the manned space program," Reeves said. An astronaut will sit in front of a television screen equipped with a set of cross-hairs. As he watches the sun on the screen, he will aim the cross-hairs at any areas that seem interesting, and the cross-hairs will electronically aim a telescope located outside the orbiting space station. This ability to follow sunspots, active regions, and other events immediately will be a great improvement over the present generation of automated telescopes which must be programmed a day ahead...
There's a distinct atmosphere surrounding Harvard's cross-country squad, and you can sense it the moment you walk into the track locker room at Dillon Field House...