Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abolitionism, where he had little contact with open discrimination and dreamed of getting his higher education at Harvard. But he lacked the money for Harvard and the offer of a scholarship attracted him to a small Negro college in Nashville, Tennessee. At the age of 17 he entered Fisk University, which was for him "the new experience of being with my own group of people...
...Bulletin. Members may then be asked to vote for censure, which repels not only job seekers, but also such donors as big philanthropic foundations. At its San Francisco meeting, A.A.U.P. swelled the blacklist to 15 campuses, from Pennsylvania's Grove City College (no hearing) to Tennessee's Fisk University (no separation pay). "Once a school gets on our censured list," says A.A.U.P.'s General Counsel, Harvard Law Professor Clark Byse, "it really wants...
Franklin waited tables through Fisk, graduated magna cum laude; he typed Ph.D. dissertations to work his way through Harvard, got his doctorate in American history. In World War II, Franklin applied for clerical work in the Navy. The reply: "You have even better qualifications than we are asking for in all respects but one-the color of your skin." The turndown hurt, but it gave Franklin time to become an expert on Negro and Civil War history. He taught for nine years at Howard, helped write the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1954 Supreme Court brief against school segregation...
Though his company is only six months old, Thrifty's President Wilbur Fisk Stemmons, 50, a onetime used-car salesman, already has a fleet of 140 new autos, and sales running at the rate of $500,000 a year. Many other cut-rate car rental companies are also springing up across the U.S. Though some quickly fold for lack of capital and know-how, many are doing remarkably well. Chicago's Budget Rent-A-Car, bossed by Jules W. Lederer, 45, husband of Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers, has opened franchised branches in 50 cities, plans to open...
...John, who spoke with the authority of a Nobel Laureate (1951) and an Atoms for Peace Award winner (1961). As an example, he singled out the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York and New Jersey, where 4,400 assorted scientists and engineers under the leadership of Physicist James Fisk spend up to $155 million of their company's money each year on research and development. Examples: ∙TRANSISTORS. "Twelve years or so ago, I visited the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey and saw scientists drawing single crystals of very pure germanium from a molten mass. These very pure...