Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOUSTON, TEXAS -- To most Houstonians, Wheeler Street means only one thing: Negro. Like Dowling, West Dallas, Gray, and Elgin, Wheeler is one of the main arteries of Black Houston. As with the others, traffic on Wheeler is heavy throughout the day, and during rush hours, it is often bumper-to-bumper. But for the last month, Wheeler, in the five-block vicinty of Houston's predominantly Negro Texas Southern University, has been transformed. The first sign of trouble came one day last month, when Wheeler was filled with people, some three to four hundred chanting and singing T.S.U. students...
...hardly seemed a bargain at any price. Yet the Copley newspaper chain paid $2,650,000 for it last May, and Copley is not known for spending its money foolishly. The chain's 15 other papers are all well-established dailies in such cities as Joliet, Springfield and Elgin, ILL., and San Diego, San Pedro and Burbank, Calif. They all turn a profit, and though nominally independent, all generally stick to the conservative Republican philosophy of their owner, Jim Copley...
...small-town fellow with uncomplicated tastes, Roche was born in Elgin, Ill., the son of a funeral director. His father died when he was twelve, and Roche went to work in a notions store after school and on Saturday. Unable to afford college, he took correspondence courses in accounting and economics-a practice he does not recommend for today's budding executives -and got a job with the Chicago branch of Cadillac. Soon his name was entered in G.M.'s "black book"-a loose-leaf binder with profiles of the 700 or so brightest comers in the company...
...theologian renowned for his pioneering work in religious psychology (The Exploration of the Inner World), a Congregationalist minister whose own mental difficulties (he suffered from schizophrenia) led him in 1936 to advance the theory that "certain forms of mental disorder and religious revelation are closely interrelated"; of arteriosclerosis; in Elgin...
...hero and inventor of the retractable periscope, who in 1915 took submarine Ell through the Dardanelles minefields into the Sea of Marmara, where in 96 days he sank 96 Turkish ships, for which he got the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration; of a kidney disease; in Elgin, Scotland...