Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days ago in Birmingham, Ala., 20-year-old running back Kent Waldrep of Texas Christian University lay on the ground before 63,000 spectators, unable to move. Moments before, he had been toting the pigskin, trying to gain yardage for his team. Yet there he lay, the victim of a jarring tackle which landed him upside down. The result: a damaged spinal cord and instant paralysis from the neck down...
...Francis Sargent to call up 450 National Guardsmen, who were stationed in armories in the event local and state police needed help. Democratic Mayor Kevin White was not consulted about the mini-mobilization. His office released a memo calling the Guard "inept, incompetent and ill-equipped." He feared another Kent State tragedy, even though the Massachusetts guardsmen were not issued firearms. The White House turned down a request from Sargent for federal troops, but later alerted regular Army paratroopers in Fort...
...sympathy goes out to Photographer Kent Henderson of the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, who was sworn at by Richard Nixon. Being assigned to photograph a President can be hazardous to your health and wealth. I know. I was fired by Nixon and his cronies for wearing a plaid jacket [during the swearing-in at Nixon's second Inauguration]. At least Henderson still has his job. I would rather have been "cussed out" than...
Third Season Cambridge Concert Series presents its first concert: Edward Tarr, trumpet, and George Kent, organ, playing Baroque, Classic, and con-temporary works. Tickets $3.50. Sunday...
...helped establish a new precedent: the belief that everyone should (and could) go to college, an idea that resulted in the creation of a continuing class of students, semidetached from their society and their parents. Twenty years later, under different circumstances, that group was heard from at Berkeley, Kent State and Columbia...