Word: martin
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...memory from the past. On a visit to the South many years ago, I found myself carrying it with me somewhere between the past and the present. I thought of it a great deal. It occurred in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., at an allday meeting at Martin Luther King's church, the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Reverend King had just come to public notice. We had heard about him in Talladega County where I was attending college and, curious about him, decided to drive to Montgomery...
...council will not meet next week in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, so councillors will likely wait until Jan. 26 to cast their ballots, said Councillor Francis H. Duehay...
...literary editor of The New Republic, suggested Berkowitz review the Thompson book after a prior Berkowitz review explored issues surrounding Alexis de Tocqueville, religion and civil society. Berkowitz had two (soundly politic) qualms--that Thompson is a colleague and that his own tenure review process was underway. After calling Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies and owner of The New Republic, for advice, Berkowitz came to the conclusion that one, he had not even spoken with Thompson during his six years in the same department and that this review might start a conversation, and two, that even though this...
Gore's book Earth In The Balance is a bold, moral, intelligent and visionary work about environmental threat that should be read by every American. Perhaps if Gore became President, he would approximate the levels of morality and genius that were exemplified by Martin Luther King Jr. Why would we want a President who is more image than substance? Our Constitution was written by people of sound morals, reason and vision. This is the kind of leadership that we need today. JOHN SEEM La Crescent, Minn...
...Carrying the probe will be the new Athena 2 rocket, built by Lockheed Martin as part of NASA's low-cost, high-speed Discovery program to explore this solar system. The mission will cost just $63 million. But the results may well be historic. If the probe confirms the presence of water ice at the Moon's south pole, the next era of space exploration may be at hand: missions launched from a manned Moon outpost that could drill for its own water and thus be self-sustaining. That would indeed be a pretty big step for mankind...