Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon wants an adequate but minimal photographic record of his presidency, says Atkins, a veteran of 27 years with the Saturday Evening Post. He has trimmed civilians on the White House photo-lab staff from 11 to four and dismissed the 23-man newsreel team that used to follow President Johnson around. Also gone is L.B.J.'s computerized photo file. Marvels Atkins: "You could push one button and out would come pictures of Johnson smiling, push another and you'd get Johnson frowning. One of the first things we did was throw out that file...
...High School auditorium to participate in a "human-re lations institute." For many, the three-day course was a shocking experience. At the opening gathering, Joseph Paige, 38, a bearded black who holds a doctorate in science and who ran the program, set the tone of what was to follow by denouncing "spineless administrators," scornfully calling them "castrated" and "niggers...
...runs the United States Urbanics Corp., a sensitivity-training firm. The program's announced aim was to increase teachers' and administrators' awareness of the needs, feelings and aspirations of pupils and their parents-particularly black and Spanish-American pupils and parents. There will be five more follow-up sessions, each three hours long, during the school year, to keep this awareness at a high level...
...delegates-from an Anglican archbishop to fervid Pentecostalists-had come to Minneapolis expecting something else. The six-day congress had originally been planned as a grass-roots session on evangelism, a follow-up to the more intellectual World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin in 1966. But in his welcome, Honorary Chairman Billy Graham promised that the meeting "will affect every religious group in the country in the next decade." Keynoter Oswald C. J. Hoffmann (see box) continued the warmup, warning the delegates: "If the Gospel is demonstrated only vocally and not vitally in the everyday actions of Christ...
French social order ensured disorder. Soldiering and conspiracy were almost the only trades open to the younger sons of an already partly superfluous nobility, and many of them saw fit to follow both. Friction between Huguenot and Catholic never really ceased. Conspiracies against Louis and Richelieu coagulated regularly around Gaston, Louis' vain and frustrated younger brother, and Marie de Medici, their harridan mother...