Word: greensboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November, 1960, students staged what would become known as a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were trying to integrate that restaurant through direct action instead of working for the election of a sympathetic mayor or city councilman. It was an historic moment in the evolution of American dissent. This rejection of electoral politics caught the imagination of students around the country. SNCC grew out of the Greensboro lunch counter...
...Jarrell at 51 was killed by a truck while walking on a highway near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he had ?. lived and taught for many years. In a touching memoir, his widow recalls the "desperate valor" with which he faced the final nervous breakdown before his death. He was "granted a few magic weeks" in which "poems flew at him, short ones, quatrains, haiku, aphorisms, parts of speech, parts of poems, ideas for poems, until just words beat at his head like many wings...
...Imagine," observed Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope in one of his few quotable lines, "not even coming here to pick up an Oscar. I flew to Greensboro, N.C., to become 'Chitlin of the Month...
...Open, it was twelve under, as compared with six under last year; in the Tucson Open, it was 15 under, as compared with ten. Doug Sanders needed a nine-under 275 to eke out a one-stroke victory in last month's Doral Open, and when the Greater Greensboro Open reached the halfway point last week, no less than 29 golfers had sub-par scores...
John J. Finley '68 of Lowell House and Falls Church, Va., manager; David A. Grimes '69 of Quincy House and Greensboro, N.C., student conductor; Gordon H. Sellon Jr., '68 of Dudley House and Belmont, drill master; Wayne S. Barry '69 of Eliot House and Wilmette, III. Also approved assistant managers, Joseph Field '69 of Leverett House and Weston; William C. Horne '69 of Leverett House and Beverly; S. Kent Rawson '69 of Leverett House and Topeka, Kansas; Michael S. Schooler '69 of Lowell House and Rochester, N.Y.; and Robert D. Whittemore '69 of Leverett House and New York...