Word: hille
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Also on view are two versions of the Civil Rights Bill that Congress passed and President Grant signed into law in 1875. And there is material concerning Dr. John V. DeGrasse, an 1849 graduate of Bowdoin Medical School who set up an office at 17 Poplar Street on Beacon Hill, was in 1854 the first Negro to be admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society, and later served as an assistant surgeon in the Union army...
...stamp designs (for which commissioned artists receive $1,000) are reviewed by the Postmaster General's eleven-member Stamp Advisory Council, which is trying to avoid turkeys like the 1948 stamp celebrating the poultry industry. Still, the department must occasionally wince and yield to pressures from Capitol Hill. In 1966, Louisiana's Representative Jimmy Morrison, chairman of the House postal-rate subcommittee, wanted a stamp commemorating the Great River Road that runs from Canada to New Orleans along the Mississippi-and right through his district. Larry O'Brien, needing Morrison's support for a parcel-post...
...where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time the shooting ended, 25 Americans had been killed and 35 wounded. Other Americans took the hill unopposed the next day, found nine Communist dead...
...dispute (at least 20 people injured), workers walked off the job at Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-the first general strike at the world's largest shipyard. Meanwhile, the possibility of a crippling strike by six railroad shopcraft unions flickered anew, though on Capitol Hill, there were hopeful plans to draft legislation to handle the dispute...
...week each year they retreat to a tranquil farm hard by the hill-country hamlet of Guildhall, Vt. (pop. 250), to eat strawberry shortcake on paper plates and set their sights for the coming year. Last week they were at it again, gathering in a 150-year-old barn for a round of seminars and lectures (sample topic: "The Government-Industry Paradox: Serenity, Seduction or Surrender") aimed at keeping their dynamic company on the move...