Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unused to torrid California temperature, the Crimson worked sluggishly at first. It took the entire week for the men to get used to the excessive heat and to the loss of weight. They had not had any "full speed" hitting since the Yale game in November. Oregon, on the other hand, was playing on home territory, and appeared to be in top condition...
Step by Step. That summer heat, in Memphis as elsewhere, hinges not just on civil rights but on the bread-and-TV-set issues of economic parity. The city's 200,000 Negroes have discovered not only that they are poor but also, even by honky standards, undeservedly so. What began a month ago as a walkout by city employees is now a black-and-white confrontation. Memphis garbage collectors, most of them making $1.80 an hour, went on strike for a 60?-an-hour minimum raise, recognition of their union and a dues checkoff by city hall. Nearly...
...mile, sophomore Roy Shaw finished in sixth place with a disappointing 4:15.5. Shaw won his heat in the afternoon trials, but dropped behind in the evening's finals after leading briefly...
...from viewing. Yet we, as mothers, must send our sons to participate in this carnage. Can we do less than share with them, if only vicariously, the agonies we ask them to endure daily? Cowards come in many forms-the most significant number not being those retreating from the heat of battle but those too cowardly to face the reality of what that battle entails in terms of human lives. Those pictures, madam, are statistics, in graphic form, and if they do not, indeed, "color the public's view of this war," then American morality cannot be salvaged...
...report is proving dramatically to the nation what President Johnson has sought to play down. The country cannot afford both the war in Vietnam and a war on poverty. When the President appointed the commission (and called for a day of prayer) in the heat of the Newark riots it looked like a cheap way out. The Commission has shown that there is no cheap way out. Should the President shelve this report, having aroused and once more frustrated hopes, the country may well have to pay far more...