Word: ga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career studded with firsts-she was the first Negro principal to sing at La Scala and the first Negro romantic lead at the Metropolitan Opera-dazzling Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, 36, achieved another breakthrough: a desegregated concert in the Municipal Auditorium of her native Atlanta, Ga. Winning exultant plaudits from an audience of 3,000 with a repertory ranging from Brahms lieder to spirituals, the former First Congregational Church soloist beamingly accepted a basket of roses from Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen, who told her: "You have brought honor to Atlanta.'' Responded Mattiwilda: "My heart is so full...
...GA Cornell 4 3 0 8 19 23 Brown 3 1 0 6 10 9 Harvard 2 1 0 4 11 3 Yale 2 3 0 4 17 13 Dartmouth 2 3 0 4 19 23 Princeton...
...contrast. Snick's Atlanta headquarters is a windowless cubicle in an all-Negro district. King began to lose status with young Negroes last May when he failed to take a Freedom Ride into Mississippi. He lost even more last month at a civil rights demonstration in Albany, Ga., when he was taken off to jail vowing that he would stay behind bars indefinitely, then meekly posted bond and went home two days later...
...bluntly frank report tells of a police officer, referred to only as "Y," in Dawson, Ga., who arrested Negro James Brazier for speeding in November 1957. It quotes Brazier: "When I first entered the door of the jail, 'Y' hit me on the back of the head and knocked me down and said, 'You smart son-of-a-bitch, I been wanting to get my hands on you for a long time.' I said, 'Why you want me for?' 'Y' said, 'You is a nigger who is buying new cars...
...Crimson fell apart without the Nigerian star in the Williams game, and lost 3 to 2. According to coach Bruce Munro, Ohiri is out for the rest of the season, and his appearance at Yale would have to be "a pleasant surprise." THE STANDINGS Team W L T GF GA TP Harvard 4 0 1 19 4 9 Brown 4 2 0 9 12 8 Yale 2 1 1 12 9 8 Princeton 2 2 2 6 6 6 Cornell 2 2 1 10 12 5 Penn 2 4 0 9 9 4 Columbia...