Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christ was tempted by Satan in the wilderness of Judah, so the Bible says, and James Pike was determined to go there too-"to meditate," as his wife wistfully recalled later, "and get a firsthand feeling of it." For the onetime Episcopal Bishop of California, it was just one more unusual adventure in a remarkably strange career (see following story). As always, he was anxious to get on with it. No matter that it was 1 o'clock on a hot Monday afternoon, hardly the time to set out into the blistering, arid desert. James Pike...
...their campuses with a wholly new perspective. Says Mae Ethridge, from Fresno City College: "We knew about the injustice and poverty intellectually, but we had to feel it before it became meaningful." Bob Brower, who teaches at New York State University's Urban Center in Brooklyn, learned firsthand about ghetto justice by spending an afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder." Tom Carey, of North Hennepin State Junior College...
...Cape Kennedy, Correspondents David Lee and Joseph Kane were joined by Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin and Contributing Editor Larry DuBois, who had flown down from New York to record firsthand impressions of the massive press, radio and TV coverage-and indeed share the feelings of the million or more other space watchers at the Cape during those awesome moments of blastoff...
...contrast, his son. Prince Juan Carlos, is considered more tractable. Franco has already carefully groomed .him: the Prince holds commissions from the three Spanish service academies, has spent considerable time studying government firsthand in Madrid ministries, lives in a palace close to Franco's, and often spends his time with the Caudillo. Moreover, the Prince is quiet and relatively withdrawn; many of his countrymen regard him with more curiosity than enthusiasm...
...graduating seniors was surprisingly placid, sentimental and traditional. Dissent was spoken of by student valedictorians, and by their elders receiving honorary degrees. But there was also a sense of nostalgia and guarded anticipation of the future -shadowed by the presence of the war in Viet Nam. Following is a firsthand report on the commencement spirit...