Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Permit from Sod. "Listen, America," said Sterling Tucker, the march's coordinator, in an emotional address before the giant, brooding figure of Lincoln. "Hear our anguished cries. We are admitting that we are poor. But we are also giving warning. We will not remain poor. We will not remain depressed, repressed or oppressed." Added Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League: "This may be the last march which is non violent and which brings blacks and whites together. The nation and the Congress must listen to us now before it is too late-before the prophets...
...With the march over, the campers can now either go home or resort to acts of massive civil disobedience, which Abernathy has long threatened. At week's end a demonstration at the Department of Agriculture did dissolve into a sit-in on Independence Avenue and a bottle-throwing fracas with police outside the shanty city. Arrests: 87. Even so, by toning down his demands to include those things that are within reach and by exaggerating his successes-he claims credit for several actions that the Administration would probably have taken anyway-Abernathy has also left open the door...
Casting off from Casablanca last March 29, Delta Airlines Pilot Hugo Vihlen, 36, confidently squared away his six-foot sailboat, April Fool, and shaped a course for Miami Beach, 4,100 sea miles distant. For 84 days, Vihlen bobbed and tossed in the prevailing easterlies, subsisted on little else but bread and water, yet kept his sea legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came...
...shares with today's Deutsche mark the unqualified confidence of international businessmen, financiers and speculators. Because investors now prefer bonds floated in German marks to those denominated in U.S. dollars, most mark issues are selling above par, while dollar bonds go at a discount in Europe. During the March gold crisis, there was such a rush to change other money into marks that foreign accounts in West German banks swelled by a net $285 million in a single week...
...next big film, The Sergeant, is about a homosexual G.I. who re-enlists to get closer to the boys. CBS Films this month announced that it has bought the rights to The Boys in the Band, an off-Broadway hit in which all the characters are homosexuals. In March, 20th Century-Fox snapped up the rights to Gore Vidal's torture and transvestite novel, Myra Breckinridge...