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...said Charles Sposato, a Framingham high school teacher. At Temple Israel in Akron, Governor Richard Celeste of Ohio told Judy Resnik's parents and friends, "She knew she would be at home in space. And she was. And she is." At North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, where Ron McNair studied physics, the choir sang old spirituals, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a fellow alumnus, told the congregation that McNair "belongs to the ages...
...assets." Third-ranked Raleigh-Durham, N.C., moved up from ninth place, for instance, partly because it is "a genteel place to live." Atlanta, 1981's top city, fell to eleventh place, hurt by conditions at its zoo. Washington, second in 1981, slipped in rank to 15th, while the metropolitan Greensboro, N.C., area dived from third to 41st...
Jackson compared the potential effect of Harvard divesting to that of the four Blacks who staged a sit-in at a Greensboro, N.C. breakfast counter in 1960, little realizing that they would instigate nationwide protests of segregated public facilities in the South...
...Blue Devils did pick up a huge ACC win last Wednesday night in nearby Greensboro, where they defeated Wake Forest, 76-70, in overtime
...sixties, our generation shies away from such displays, claiming they are naive, lambasting what we see as token and counterproductive grabs for media attention. But we should remember that nearly twenty-five years ago, when four young black students simply sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and ignited the civil rights movement, the same skeptical eyebrows were raised as to what could be accomplished...