Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major factor in the team's success with his aggressive coaching methods (Runner: "What can I do to run faster Coach? McCurdy, "Run faster") and unusual meet style (He dresses in sweat clothes and races madly around the course shouting strategy and encouragement), most of the runners give equal credit to the leadership of the captain, Englishman Jim Baker...
...threat was the formal organization in Dallas this month of the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, composed of 300 members from twelve Protestant denominations. Its chief founder, the Rev. Benjamin F. Payton, president of South Carolina's Baptist Benedict College, concedes that U.S. churches have generally demanded equal justice for Negroes, and that white clergymen have been at the forefront of civil rights demonstrations. Nevertheless, says Payton, "I don't think we have yet the concrete actions that clearly suggest that the churches are moving to remedy the great evil of social injustice...
...major cases began almost immediately after he ascended the bench on October 5, 1953. His first big test was Brown v. Board of Education, the school-desegregation case. It was quickly apparent to him that a majority of the court was going to strike down the separate-but-equal rule, which had been challenged in Kansas and three other states. Well aware that an order to desegregate all public schools would be a nation-shaking step, the new Chief was anxious that the decision be unanimous, without any separate concurrences. He set out to write that single opinion himself...
...dolphins? Lilly explains that the brain of the seagoing mammal, which is 20% to 40% larger than man's, seems to be at least as complex in structure. This, as well as the dolphin's clever mannerisms, suggests to him that its intelligence may be equal to or even surpass...
...Edifice Complex." Lately, Ahmanson has been building monuments as well. He contributed $2,000,000 to help construct the Los Angeles Music Center for the Performing Arts, an equal sum for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art; he also endowed the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research at the University of Southern California. Last month he announced plans for a 40-story office block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about...