Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta, Police Chief Herbert Jenkins dubbed S.N.C.C. the "Nonstudent Violent Committee," and similar sentiments echoed throughout the Negro civil rights movement. "It is still my firm conviction that a riot is socially destructive and self-defeating," lamented Martin Luther King Jr. Atlanta's Negro leaders were more outspoken; they adopted a resolution condemning the riot as "irresponsible" and "shameful." Julian Bond, the Atlanta Negro who was elected to the Georgia legislature last winter but later denied his seat for condoning draft card-burning as an antiwar gesture, resigned as S.N.C.C. publicity director. Other Atlanta Negroes set fire...
...rocket's nose was a complex instrument package designed by Physicist Herbert Gursky and containing a sensitive X-ray scanner and a small camera pointed at Scorpio for 55 sec. of the brief ballistic flight. By measuring the changing intensity of X rays detected by the scanner and coordinating the scanner with the camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear...
...social problem, have taken a new and softer tack. In the face of congregational hostility, they have come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned pulpit-thumping sermons and turned to the long-range task of convincing their parishioners by indirection...
...Tropical Fish Hobbyist Herbert Axelrod [July 29], TIME says "he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas are not man-eaters." This is not in accord with my childhood memories of placing my hand against the glass wall of the piranha tank in the hometown aquarium for the thrill of watching these aggressive Lilliputians try to attack the hand...
...lower Cabinet level, Richard Grossman, a favorite of Labor's rebellious left wing, moved from Housing to Leader of the House, a position that will make him responsible for corralling the rebel Laborites, whose abstentions have been embarrassing to the Prime Minister. The former Leader of the House, Herbert Bowden, moved to the Ministry for Commonwealth Affairs, replacing Arthur Bottomley, whose inability to settle the Rhodesian crisis made him some thing of a liability. Still, Bottomley was not expelled from the Cabinet; instead he was shifted to the Ministry for Overseas Development, a post that was made vacant...