Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken so long to nail Soblen? The FBI as usual had no comment. But presumably it wanted to gather more evidence, and had hoped to bag some co-conspirators along...
...injuries in sports happen often enough to keep doctors seriously worried In 1958, the U.S. Air Force announced that 3,222 of its men had been disabled or killed in sports activities during a single year.* Says Harvard University's Dr. Thomas B. Quigley: "Whenever young men gather regularly on green autumn fields, on winter ice, or polished wooden floors to dispute the possession and position of various leather and rubber objects, according to certain rules, sooner or later somebody gets hurt." Last week in Washington, D.C., 100 doctors met for the American Medical Association's second National...
...wall, lie sweltering swamps-and the mosquitoes whose deadly bite kept white men from settling Nigeria as they did Algeria, Kenya and the Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara's edge, where by day nomadic cattle herders bow to Mecca and muffle their faces against...
Hoots & Hoses. D-day morning came last week, humid and sultry. By 8 a.m. crowds had begun to gather in front of McDonogh 19* and William J. Frantz, the two elementary schools chosen for integrated first-grade classes. Squads of city police stood guard, some joking with the baiters, carefully refusing to answer the taunting question: "Are the niggers here yet?" Shortly after 9, when the white children were safely in class, patrolmen herded traffic away from the two schools. Up drove several carloads of U.S. marshals with their charges: three neatly dressed, hair-ribboned, six-year-old Negro girls...
...Hyannis armory, built in 1958, is an attractive building of its rather repulsive kind. The Kennedy people used it purely functionally for the newspaper and television press. This election night headquarters, unlike those of most other candidates, was not the place for the party faithful to gather, hear the returns, and either celebrate or grieve. The armory was reserved entirely for the press, and the local and state police kept out the public (which was not terribly enthusiastic, anyway, for the town of Barnstable, of which Hyannis and Hyannis Port are parts, is almost 5 to 1 Republican...