Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beliefs, an official of the New York Catholic archdiocese charged that it would add "an implicit pressure" on welfare mothers to accept. A Florida N.A.A.C.P. leader also criticized the program on the grounds that blacks "need to produce more babies, not less," for added political power. The plan, however, drew praise from many family planning and demographic experts and from the Episcopal bishop of California, C. Kilmer Myers. Indeed, unless the birth rate is cut, U.S. population (now more than 200 million) will exceed 300 million by the year...
...grandfather had traveled from his native Russia to Amsterdam, intending to catch the first ship to the U.S. The only boat leaving immediately was bound for Buenos Aires, so he took it. Thus, Lalo (his real first name is Boris) was born in 1932 in a city that drew no cultural and social lines between various forms of music. Argentine folk music, Spanish songs, American jazz and pop, the classics, were all treated on a par-especially in the household run by Schifrin's father, concertmaster of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic...
...labyrinth was the main feature of what was billed as the First International Tactile Sculpture Symposium, which drew 15 artists, psychologists and teachers to discuss such things as the importance of touch to emotion and art. The exhibits were public. Reaction, as registered on questionnaires distributed at the entrance, may or may not have affirmed the symposium's point. "Fearful," read one response, "Sexy," read another One young woman resurfaced from the darkness in the buff, clutching her garments. "It's too much of an experience in there," she said matter-of-factly. "I didn't understand...
...into (rent free) the organization's elegant town house in Philadelphia's Delancey Place. Soon, writes Walter, Harris had collected "several thousand dollars worth" of suits, jewelry (he went for diamond and sapphire rings), an expensive Daimler automobile, credit cards, exotic birds, camera equipment. The Buck name drew well, and by 1965 the board of governors included Art Buchwald, Sargent Shriver and Mrs. William Scranton. The foundation prospered...
Spivey's Corner (pop. 100), North Carolina, had its big day in history last week. It was there that once and for all they drew the line between hollering and hollerin', in the goldarnedest contest that the village had seen since Dewey Jackson won half a ton of fertilizer for hog calling...