Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower, through his ubiquitous mouth-piece, Sherman Adams, has refused an invitation from Mongomery's Rev. Martin Luther King to speak in the South on the problems of integration. The reason that he gave for his refusal was that he could not spare the time to "schedule a speaking engagement". The President has, however, in the past two weeks, been able to make two separate trips to Augusta, Georgia, spending a total of nine days...
...freshmen swept the dash, which Pat Liles won in 4.7. Art Hoyte was the victor in the 300, while Art Cahn won the 600 in 1:19 flat. Eddie Martin took the mile...
James Paul Mitchell, 56, Secretary of Labor, took over in October 1953, when Union Leader Martin Durkin resigned in a dispute about Taft-Hartley law changes. Mitchell turned out to be the biggest sur prise in the Cabinet and is now rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since...
SAMURAI!, by Saburo Sakai, with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito (382 pp.; Dutton; $4.95), sweeps through the South Pacific with all guns firing as Pilot Sakai and his squadron of Zeros effortlessly shoot U.S. planes out of the sky. In five seconds over Port Moresby, four Airacobras are sent spinning into the sea. Another time the Japs down six of seven null without the loss of a Zero...
...Freestyle: Clifton (H), Lind (H), Beron (N) Time: 23.9; 200 Yd. Butterfly: Stanley (H), Neville (N), Jaffe (H) Time: 2:36.2; Dive: Stone (H), Murner (H), Pheris (N) Points 67.85; 100 Yd. Freestyle: Dyer (H), Lind (H), Peltier (N) Time: 51.0; 440 Yd. Freestyle: Seaton (H), Martin (N), Gentz (N) Time: 5:03.7; 200 Yd. Breaststroke: Stanley (H), Falk (H), Friederich (N) Time 2:31.8; 400 Yd. Freestyle Relay: Navy Time...