Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manson believes that "fitness in the head is more important that fitness in the body" with regard to skiing safely. That is, the incidence of accidents rises sharply as alertness falls off at such times as before lunch and late in the day. Dr. Manson suggests the following guidelines for your safety on the slopes...
...earlier, for Alexa Stirling when each won the women's national golf championship. I reminded them that they gave a big welcome to Atlanta's war heroes too. Dr. King, I told them, was being honored as a Nobel prizewinner, not because he sat down at a lunch counter or picketed over in Selma...
...speech took 21 minutes. Then the great solemnity of the moment began to dissolve. It was time for lunch with Congressmen and friends. Still, the process of history in which he had just participated was an affecting thing for Lyndon Johnson. En route to the luncheon, he stopped in his tracks, impulsively, wordlessly, leaned over and kissed his wife on the mouth. Lynda Bird saw it, and she moved up, drew the President's head down and kissed him on both cheeks. Johnson gazed down at Luci Baines, and she too kissed him. Then they walked...
...Baton Rouge, in 1961, police arrested 23 students of Southern (Negro) University for picketing segregated lunch counters. Next day, the Rev. B. Elton Cox, a Congregationalist minister and CORE worker, led 2,000 more students to the courthouse for a peaceful demonstration against the arrests. Cox figured he had permission because Police Chief Wingate White had told him to "confine" his demonstrators to the opposite side of the street...
When Cox urged his crew to go to segregated lunch counters, white bystanders began muttering angrily, and the sheriff ordered Cox & Co. to leave "immediately." Minutes later the demonstrators were still there, and police dispersed them with tear-gas shells...