Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven years ago, Hosea Williams, the son of a Georgia dirt farmer, gave up a $14,000-a-year job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("I was a very., very good chemist") to join Martin Luther King Jr. Williams has since become one of the country's leading civil rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events...
...monolithic Establishment. At dozens of campuses, university presidents supported student demands for an end to the Cambodian venture and a withdrawal from Indochina. Oberlin College President Robert Carr simply canceled final exams, gave all his students credit for their courses and turned over the campus to antiwar planning. James Farmer, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, spoke out in support of the students. The defeat of G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court persuaded many that the system could be responsive to protest. Nor was the anger of so many Washington legislators lost on the young. They realized that...
...second grade in Binger, Okla., they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher. Cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer, and they laughed. In the eighth grade they asked the same question, and I said ballplayer and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade they weren't laughing...
Died. Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish-born movie and TV star (The Farmer's Daughter); of an overdose of barbiturates; in Hollywood. A onetime chorus girl, she played TV roles in Studio One and Kraft Theater productions in the mid-1950s, won notice in Hollywood, where she appeared opposite Bing Crosby in Man on Fire, and went on to star in many more films, most recently A Dream of Kings...
...they are successful, the chief problem may be economics: artificial hormones are expensive to synthesize, and there is a limit to the extra cash a farmer or gardener is willing to shell out to achieve environmental purity...