Word: fairfax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer seemed obvious to Paul E. Sullivan, a white systems analyst at the Pentagon. As a homeowner in a suburban development in Virginia's Fairfax County, Sullivan belonged to the residents' swimming club, which is called Little Hunting Park Inc. And in 1965, when he rented his house to Theodore R. Freeman Jr., a Negro economist at the Agriculture Department, Sullivan assumed that Freeman's lease entitled him to join the club. Instead, the club barred the Negro tenant. When Sullivan protested, the club barred him too. Sullivan was angry enough to join Freeman in fighting...
...Leverett House and Hicksville, N. Y., Arthur H. Lubow '73 of Straus Hall and New York City. David E. Sellinger '72 of Quincy House and Newton Centre, and John A. Simop '72 of Dunster House and Chicago to the News Board: Lynn M. Darling '72 of Cabot Hall and Fairfax, Va., Jeffrey S. Golden '72 of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Cal., James M. Lewis '70-3 of Eliot House and Alexandria. Va., and Jerry Nepom '72 of Leverett House and Portland, Ore. to the Editorial Board...
...ecoactivists include groups as straight-arrow as the Girl Scouts, who last week campaigned for clean air in places ranging from Hartford, Conn., to smog-threatened Fairfax, Va. Among other young ecoactivists are the Ashland (Wis.) High School juniors who recently demonstrated in support of Duluth's Pollution Enforcement Conference. Alarmed at the growing damage to Lake Superior's ecology, they plan to confront dumpers of industrial wastes that are slowly polluting the only Great Lake that can still be called clean...
Walk on Water. At sea, the two remaining contestants in the first singlehanded, nonstop sailboat race around the world are trying to better the record of 312 days set last month by Britain's Robin Kriox-Johnston. A onetime big-game hunter and whisky smuggler named John Fairfax is rowing a 22-ft. boat 3,300 miles from the Canary Islands to Florida. Honors for freakish firsts, though, must go to Aleksander Wozniak, a Polish exile and former R.A.F. fighter pilot, who fashioned a pair of 3-ft.-long, canoe-shaped shoes out of wood and walked 33 miles...
...CHILDREN OF THE HOUSE by Brian Fairfax-Lucy and Philippa Pearce (Lippincott, $3.95) concerns four lonely children growing up in aristocratic poverty in England before World War I. It is quietly moving to watch them finding happiness of sorts among themselves and with their only allies, the servants...