Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international education fraternity may expel its Harvard chapter tomorrow for accepting women, Lebaron Moseby, president of Harvard Phi Delta Kappa, said yesterday...
...possible expulsion will be discussed tomorrow at the biennial convention of Phi Delta Kappa in Houston...
Moseby, last year an assistant dean at the Ed School and currently director of student teaching at Simmons College, said that the Phi Delta Kappa's executive board suspended the Harvard society in January 1973 when Harvard submitted the names of several women for membership. The international board informed Harvard that its chapter would be expelled if it did not conform to the male-only policy...
TRIDENT. The original program called for putting the first Tridents in the water in 1980 at a cost of $1,350,000,000 each, but the Navy asked to move the launch up to 1978 after the Soviets began deploying their advanced Delta submarines. The Armed Services Committee approved the Navy's request for $1.5 billion for Trident in fiscal 1974 over the objections of New Hampshire Senator Thomas McIntyre, chairman of the subcommittee on research and development. To avoid cost overruns, he proposed sticking to the target date of 1980, which would cut the appropriation...
...late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite reports in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal that Evers had developed a strong political machine statewide, Berry shows in some detail how poorly organized a number of counties were. While a number of counties in the Delta did have strong organizations, black candidates in many counties failed to campaign aggressively and did not develop the precinct organization to get out the vote. Many local blacks relied on Evers alone to produce a big enough turnout to give them the votes necessary to defeat entrenched whites. Many county organizations were...