Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience hurst into applause for the first American ever to win the official world championship, Bobby nodded, smiled shyly and hurried from the hall. Spassky, reached by a newsman, was philosophical about his defeat: "I'm not sad," he said. "It's a sporting event and I lost. Bobby's the new champion. Now I must take a walk and get some fresh air." From Iceland, where for the past two months he has covered the Fischer-Spassky match for TIME, American Grandmaster Larry Evans cabled his résumé and impressions of the historic contest...
Married. Lord Shinwell, 87, former Defense Minister and irascible Laborite spokesman during 42 years in the British Parliament; and Sarah Hurst, 75, a neighbor and lifelong friend; he for the third time, she for the second; in London...
Among those who will attend are former Attorney General Ramsey Clark; the Rev. Jesse Jackson, National President of PUSH; Dr. Charles Hurst, President of Malcolm X College in Chicago; Edgar Kaiser, Chairman of the Board of Kaiser Industries Corp.; and William Lucas, the Sheriff of Wayne County, Mich. near Detroit...
...Hurst's heuristic methods have begun to achieve amazing results. Reports TIME Correspondent Jacob E. Simms: "There is a certain hardness to the student body. The usual buzzing and chatter are absent. An almost solemn silence permeates the hallways. Intense arguments go on in the student lounge. Even basketball seems to be played with unusual seriousness." The dropout rate has plummeted; this year less than 10% of Hurst's students failed to complete each semester. Members of last year's graduating class were accepted at colleges from the University of Illinois to Howard to Berkeley...
Unquestionably highhanded and ambitious, Hurst antagonizes people who disagree with him. Even sympathetic visitors occasionally come away with a sense that some of the innovations he talks about are not yet fully successful. No one knows whether the esprit that Hurst generated among the first students can carry over as the college expands. Still, he got a major vote of confidence last week when state and federal officials announced that Malcolm X would get the lion's share of nearly $1,000,000 in grants to Chicago-area colleges. A good many people seem to agree with the view...