Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of Nov. 8, 1963, we ' ran a story about Miles College, a small Negro institution on the outskirts of Birmingham, Ala., so strapped that it had to stop watering its lawn for fear it would run up too big a water bill. Its buildings were inadequate and shabby, it lacked accreditation, and prejudice was blocking attempts at self-improvement. Miles, the only four-year college available to most of the 4,000 Negro students who graduate from Birmingham's high schools each year, was, to put it bluntly, in big trouble...
...huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into, no one could match the Rumanian contortionist who folded her self up like a lawn chair and slipped across the border under an auto seat...
...formerly lived in California, placed a classified ad in a Los Angeles newspaper declaring that he was condemned to death for a crime he had not committed. When a Los Angeles butcher named Nelson Soil offered free legal aid, a 7-ft. flaming cross was suddenly planted on his lawn. Labat's more successful publicity apparently irked Poret; last year a prison official told newsmen that the two convicts "were not on speaking terms...
...people who are literally being deafened by the din of the technological age, Dr. Aram Glorig, director of the Callier Hearing and Speech Center in Dallas, believes that most Americans are all too blissfully ignorant of the hearing hazards in everyday life. "I wear earplugs when I mow the lawn," he says. Country living, he contends, is just as hard on the hair nerves as city life. "Take a group of skeet shooters who have been at it for five or ten years; every single one has got a severe high-frequency loss." Glorig tested the Marine Band and found...
...marchers had been walking for more than four hours, and now they had come to a rest on the lawn of the Quincy police station. A large group of local youths who had been trailing and taunting the marchers gathered nearby; gradually, they wandered over and began talking. Two of them approached a marcher, who was sitting exhausted under a large tree...