Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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URBAN TIGNER HOLMES JR. Kenan Professor of Romance Philology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill...
...massive June 19th demonstration that is intended to highlight the demands of the poor; to ensure order, Rustin is arranging for nearly 1,500 black New York City policemen (known as "the Guardians") and firemen ("the Vulcans") to serve as marshals in Washington on the big day. On Capitol Hill, Abernathy and 20 sympathetic Congressmen agreed to set up six subcommittees that will seek legislation to aid the poverty-stricken. Among the measures that they will push: President Johnson's program to build 6,000,000 homes for low-income families over the next decade, which last week...
With the graven mien of a frontier gambler who has peeked at his opponent's hole card, the Arkansas Democrat has stood pat against Lyndon Johnson - himself the master emeritus of Capitol Hill poker - matching imperturbably the President's wiles, threats and blandishments for 1 6 weary months...
...luck o' the Irish must have rubbed off on Raymond Guest, 60, retiring this month after three years as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland. Last September, Guest bet $2,400 at odds of 100 to 1 with London Bookie William Hill that his then unproven two-year-old colt, Sir Ivor, would win or place in this year's English Derby. Sir Ivor then won three consecutive starts, and last week-by now an odds-on favorite -he ran away from a field of twelve other horses to win the English Derby by 1 ½ lengths...
...state legislature was having some second thoughts about decentralization. The state senate in Albany rejected the mayor's original proposal and began to consider a number of compromise plans that would bring neighborhood control of the schools on a gradual basis. In the wake of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville protests, the United Federation of Teachers entered the fray, led by its aggressive president, Albert Shanker, who was jailed for 15 days last winter after leading his union through a three-week citywide strike. At the state capitol, 500 lobbying teachers jammed the corridors. They argued that decentralization would...