Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kirk (offering his hand to Brown): "You are welcome if you came here in faith and in spirit. We don't want any talk about guns...
...baseball park to hear Firebrand H. Rap Brown last week. Such open hostility was surprise enough for the youthful chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, but there was even more in store. Suddenly he found himself eyeball to eyeball with Florida's Republican Governor. Claude R. Kirk Jr., who had walked into the ballpark and up to the speaker's area at home plate...
...Said Kirk, grabbing the microphone from Brown: "Welcome to Florida...
...cigarette research: a filter that removes two-thirds of the tar and nicotine that now drifts past conventional filters, yet does not destroy the tobacco taste. Robert L. Strickman, 56, had impressive backing for his discovery. With full fanfare, it was announced by Columbia University's president, Grayson Kirk, and Dr. H. Houston Merritt, dean of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reason: Chemist Strickman gave Columbia the rights to the filter -a gift that may well bring the university millions in licensing fees...
Going Along. To be sure, there were some negative votes among Columbia's 24 trustees when the university polled them to see if they favored backing the filter. But the majority seems to agree with President Kirk's view: "Since people are going to smoke anyway, we feel they should have the safest cigarette possible." This was also one of Secretary Gardner's recommendations...