Word: ga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the early 1960's, the 26-year-old singer had made a long climb to the top of the Rhythm and Blues charts. He began his career as a janitor at Lanier Senior High School in Macon, Ga., his home town. To pick up a little spending money, "the Big O" sang gospel music at his church, and then for a local radio...
Zachry faces no such problems. Much building labor in San Antonio remains unorganized. And commercial construction costs, according to the American Appraisal Co.'s widely used index, rank as sixth lowest among U.S. cities-8% above those in cheapest Savannah, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., but 35% below those in costliest New York City...
More than half of the students, who attend law schools from the University of Washington in Seattle, to Emory College in Atlanta, Ga., are Negro. "We were surprised and delighted," said Charles Horowitz, a civil rights worker in the National Council of Church's Delta Ministry. "At last blacks are showing blacks...
...reception at a friend's home, the pictures and wire stories raced across the country to land on front pages nearly everywhere. Family matter or no, the wedding was social history rather than society-page fare. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the U.S., native of Cherokee County, Ga., and grandson of two Confederate soldiers, had given his only daughter's hand to a Negro...
...stylized symbol atop each ticket was the first and last eye-stop for many voters. In the hamlet of Dieu Ga, ten miles outside Saigon, a mother with babe on hip voted for the rice-stalk symbol of Ha Thuc Ky because, she said, she "liked rice very much." An old woman chose Dzu's white-dove ticket thinking it was a chicken. Dzu used the dove symbol to dramatize his peace platform, but in fact only highly educated Vietnamese were likely to have made the connection: the dove as an emblem of peace is a notion largely unfamiliar...