Word: greens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure just what new formula would work until Oregon's Edith Green suggested that state and local officials be given the control over local programs that they had long asked for. The leadership agreed, not only mollifying Southerners but also assuring that big-city Democratic machines would throw their all into the battle. The dramatic change had been found. "Bossism and boll weevil!" cried an outraged Charlie Goodell. The remark won his cause few Southern votes...
...Washington for transfer to the Army's Walter Reed Hospital after the trip from New York's Kennedy International Airport. The other two were flown on to Fort Bragg, N.C., where Pitzer was joined by wife and brother, and Jackson met by a cheering group of Green Beret buddies...
...crusade with penalties. In the past few weeks, about 250 Masai caught disobeying the new regulations have been locked up briefly in cells in the regional center, Arusha. Hundreds of young Masai have been drafted into a kind of national construction corps in which they must wear olive green fatigues, floppy jungle hats and heavy boots. If necessary, says Mkwang'ata, police are prepared to herd the Masai into mass baths, burn their ceremonial garb in public and shave off their ochered hair...
Noting that "the first thing the driver sees is the color," the committee concluded a three-day meeting in Denver by recommending that the U.S. make its road signs easier to recognize by broadening the basic spectrum of six colors (white, black, red, green, yellow, blue) now being used. The new hues would include purple for school zones, orange for road construction ("detour"), and brown for public recreation areas-with grey, buff and chartreuse held in reserve for future needs. So far, Washington, D.C., and Denver have tested the purple school signs with favorable results, and Albuquerque and Syracuse...
Brown was upset early in the season by Dartmouth, 1-0, for its first freshman soccer loss in 25 games. Harvard nipped the Pea Green, 2-1, on the way to compiling its present 8-0-1 record. The only game remaining is Friday afternoon at Yale...