Word: greensboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of North Carolina Greensboro...
...King of the Cowboys! Out into center ring rode Roy Rogers, 53, handsomely astride a white circus-trained stallion. He should have stayed on Trigger. Appearing with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Greensboro, N.C., Roy got saddled with a spirited nag that objected to Western spurs. Or perhaps it was the way Roy sat the English saddle. The stallion reared and a crowd of 6,000 gasped as the King, like any dude, tumbled off, landing on his rump in the sawdust...
...Nadler '67 of Dunster House and Phoenix, N. Y., manager; Neil K. Miller '67 of Quincy House and Omaha, Neb., student condutor; Harry A. Quigley '66 of Quincy House and St. Louis Mo., drillmaster: David A. Grimes '69 of Weld Hall and Greensboro, N.C., librarian, and John W. Weeks Jr. '68 of Leverett House and Belmont, properties manager...
Died. Randall Jarrell, 51, U.S. poet and critic, professor of English since 1947 at North Carolina University in Greensboro; of injuries suffered when he apparently "lunged into the path" of a passing automobile; near Chapel Hill, N.C. An amusing satirist, he took deadly aim at academic pretension in his novel Pictures from an Institution and at the "goldplated age" of "spoon-fed culture" in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. But his poetry (The Woman at the Washington Zoo) revealed an altogether different world, "commonplace and solitary," filled with terrified, lost souls finding refuge from loneliness only in Proustian reminiscence...
...freight trains. His property must actually be "taken"-a rule that the Supreme Court applied to aircraft in the 1946 case (U.S. v. Causby) of a chicken farmer who was driven off his land by military planes flying as low as 67 ft. above his house near Greensboro, N.C. The court upheld Causby because the physical invasion of his "super-adjacent airspace" made his land uninhabitable. The noise, in fact, so frightened his chickens that 150 of them flew into the nearest walls and were killed. Only after the invasion occurred was Causby allowed to recover $375 for his chickens...