Word: highness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Terry took an A.B. in religion and the classics at Brown University in 1959. His interest in journalism began in high school (Indianapolis) where, as a 110-lb. freshman, he quickly broke a wrist playing football. A sympathetic English teacher suggested that writing about sports might be safer. Today, after his immersion in activities infinitely more lethal than football, Terry will become a student again, this time at Harvard. He has been awarded a Nieman fellowship, and will take a year's leave of absence from TIME to study the economic and political struggles of underdeveloped nations, as well...
...schools this fall in accordance with a plan drawn up by HEW's Office of Education. Under the program, one of the county's seven "attendance centers," or groupings of schools for grades one through twelve, would be abolished, while two presently white centers would become integrated high schools. Three Negro centers and one white one would become integrated elementary schools. Attendance at all would be governed only by residence...
...blacks often turns on real discrimination or the failure of the military to accept the trappings of black soldiers bent on "doing their thing." Promotions, awards and coveted rear-area assignments are too often slow in coming the black soldiers' way, however well they fight or however high their proportion of casualties. Some 13% of battle deaths are black, while Negroes make up 11.1% of the American population and 9.2% of the military...
...Part of the time, she has had to be. Nine days before she was sworn in, the Egyptians, having turned the Suez front opposite Sinai into one vast, armed camp, loosed a thunderous artillery barrage. What Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser described as "the war of attrition" went into high gear. Since then the artillery has rarely been silent...
...first choice of the city's black politicians. They sought William Patrick Jr., president of New Detroit, the community organization created to revive the city after the riots. Patrick would not run, so Austin became the black hope. The odds against his beating Gribbs in November are high. In the primary, Austin polled only 9% of the white vote. Detroit's population is about 40% Negro, but only an estimated 25% of the city's eligible voters are black. Gribbs will attract not only white moderates and some liberals, but also white conservatives, who are likely...