Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prompted Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference to set up shop there. Despite promised concessions by town officials, the summer months witnessed a succession of ugly incidents. Local police wantonly assaulted a peaceable platoon of Negro pickets; sheriff's deputies broke up a civil rights fund-raising dance with tear gas. Though more than 250 of their number were arrested on various charges, the Negroes persisted in their S.C.L.C.-backed boycott of local white merchants. And when a federal court, acting last month on a Justice Department suit, ordered Grenada's Lizzie Horn Elementary School...
...party took place at the British consul general's house in Boston. Moving through the reception, Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed the first ten British graduate students awarded scholarships by Britain's Kennedy Memorial Fund, established after the President's death to send Britons to the U.S. for research and travel. Never far from the side of her brothers-in-law Bobby and Teddy, Jackie said little, although she was especially pleased to see Lord Harlech, formerly Sir David Ormsby Gore, the British Ambassador to the U.S. during the Kennedy Administration. After the party, Jackie invited the students...
...Bridge. In 1938, a 3,700-seat theater was actually built in Rockefeller Center to be used by the Met, but when the acoustics proved faulty, the company refused to move in, and it was eventually torn down. Many times blueprints were drawn up, models constructed, traffic studies made, fund-raising dinners held. But what with depressions, wars and chronically empty coffers, all the grandiose schemes came to little more than the ragged canvas castles of stage sets piled in the snow on Seventh Avenue...
...that time, his primary sales experience had been as a marketing man for the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. and as a fund raiser for Connecticut's Trinity College, of which he had been president. But he did splendidly as the No. 1 drummer of U.S. everyman's capitalism. Funston's zeal helped raise the number of American shareowners from 6.5 million to 21.5 million. Last week, declaring that "I think I deserve a rest," Keith Funston, 55, announced that he would step down when his term expires next September-or earlier if the exchange finds...
...record 2,327 performances on Broadway*and earned her, all told, an estimated $15 million, most of which she lost in the 1929 stock-market crash; of a heart attack; in an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., nursing home, where her fees were paid by the Actors' Fund, a charity for indigent theater people...