Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Industrially striving to gather some of Harvard's eggheads into their basket, local M's, as they call themselves, ran this ad in the classified section of the CRIMSON a few days ago: "ARE YOU UNUSUALLY INTELLIGENT? Existing members wish to enlarge group for diverse discussions, social activities, and studies. Apply Mensa, 74 Tudor St., Waltham, Mass...
...excitement was inside, though. On the street below, Harvard conservatives led a picket line against "YSA Dupes." Later in the evening, as a crowd of 300-400 began to gather, the students were joined by Cuban refugees, violently bitter about the showing of "Red movies" on Cuba...
...threat of thermonuclear war, the U.S. clearly has a will to survive and succeed (see The People). Despite unemployment and small weaknesses in the economy, the nation has the prosperity to pay for freedom. There can be little doubt that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, if he asks for it, can gather the national riches and focus the national energy and will for the creative work that lies ahead in building stronger alliances to preserve and make liberty secure...
...news from Berlin inevitably renewed interest in the state of U.S. missile readiness, and in a story called "Underground Fortresses" (see THE NATION), TIME this week rounds up, as no publication has before, the current state of the biggest military construction program in peacetime U.S. history. To gather material for it, Chicago Correspondent William Shelton hopped about by air last week from Chicago to Los Angeles to Seattle to Great Falls to Denver to Salina and back to Chicago, visiting underground launching sites. The missiles that will be poised in these underground silos are an old story to Shelton...
Your story of the Shakers reminded me of an account of a Shakers' meeting in the memoirs of my late father-in-law, when he was a boy in Maine a hundred years ago. He went with his grandfather, a Freewill Baptist, more out of curiosity, I gather, than anything else. He always remembered the men's guttural voices and the women's shrill and squeaky as they came on the dance floor suiting their actions to their song...