Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toiling at art, literature and history taught in French. Hardly any of the summer students are flunkees trying to catch up. The extra work will not get them to college a minute sooner. They just like it. "It's the day of the egghead," chortles Chemistry Teacher Lawrence Lynch. A measure of the results is that last year Beverly Hills' school average on the national Iowa Tests of Educational Development was in the 99th percentile...
...Jackson, Miss., a torrid 102°. It was hotter still in the barnlike Masonic Hall in the Negro quarter on Lynch Street. There was no air conditioning, no electric fan. The 4,000 Negro people who squeezed into every seat, into every bit of floor space on the stage, in the aisles, along the walls, turned their faces to a flag-draped coffin. Trumpeters arose and began to play a dirge. The people sang: "Be not dismayed, God will take care...
Stubborn Man. Okumura, 60, is chairman of Tokyo's Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., the world's largest brokerage firm after Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Nomura, in fact, is known as the Merrill Lynch of Japan and not by accident. As a worker in Nomura's research department before the war, Okumura admired Merrill Lynch's corporate philosophy of people's capitalism, made a study of the American firm's operations. When he took over as head of Nomura in 1948, he began to push widespread stock ownership. He put ads in newspapers, made...
...performance of the Crimson will be an interesting indication of prospects for next year's team. Only captain Hamlin, Azikiwe, hurdler Hank Hatch, and pole vauter Jay Mahaney are graduating among those making the trip, and the team includes two promising freshmen, high jumper Chris Pardee and hurdler Tony Lynch. Pardee, who has leaped 6 ft. 5 in. this year, will fill the one weak hole which has plagued the Crimson all year...
...There is a new spirit within business which bodes well for 1963 and into 1964," says Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block, 60, whose family-founded company is the most profitable major producer in the nation's least profitable big industry. Michael W. McCarthy, 60, chairman of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, seems pleased that "the economy has confounded a lot of experts"-and well he might be; his brokerage house, the nation's largest, has profited mightily by the stock market's 34% rise since last June. The only real concern that businessmen seem to have...