Word: jo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earl, a raggedy 14-year-old orphan, lives in his great-aunt's tumble-down boardinghouse in the black section of Quarrytown, Ga. It is, in effect, a nursing home; the boarders are all geriatrics cases. Earl's best friends are Em Jo-john, a giant, anarchic Indian who works occasionally as handyman, and Tio, a black grocery clerk with the practical native genius of Ben Franklin...
Feminist Gloria Steinem was quick to take offense at what she called "Jock-ocracy." She saw the failure to guarantee equal funds for women's sports as a commitment to "equality if it doesn't cost anything." In Michigan, Jo Jacobs of the Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in Kalamazoo Public Schools also found the proposals wanting but was "not surprised. Most institutions, including HEW and the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), are controlled by males." Kay Hutchcraft, program coordinator of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, offered a rare but cautious cheer for the new policy...
...country's election laws in the 1967 and 1971 campaigns. The trial has infuriated the Japanese-still smarting from the kidnaping-who had been promised that Kim would be free to leave South Korea to become a research fellow at Harvard. Park's Foreign Minister, Kim Dong Jo, has coolly informed the Japanese that the trial is entirely "an internal affair" and the proceedings may take as long as three months...
They conversed, it seems, mainly about the weather. Still, Prince Charles "made me feel at ease," said Laura Jo Watkins, 20. She was describing how she first met Charles when his frigate H.M.S. Jupiter visited San Diego last March. At an official reception, blonde and voluptuous Laura Jo stood in for her father, Rear Admiral James Watkins, U.S.N., and his wife Sheila. Last week she found herself listening to some more of Charles' talk. As his guest, she sat in the Strangers' Galleries at the House of Lords when he made his maiden speech, 16 minutes...
...Boston Celtics captured their 12th National Basketball Association crown yesterday, crushing the Milwaukee Bucks, 102-87. Boston Center Dave Cowens led all scorers with 28 points, with John Havlicek and Jo Jo White trailing with 16 points apiece...