Word: mccomb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Abbott Reeve tied for top skipper honors with M. I. T. captain Dave McComb in Division A yesterday, but captain Joe Worth in Division B and Jeff Storer in Division C could only manage seconds behind the firsts their M. I. T. counterparts produced...
Reeve, Harvard's Division A skipper, took three firsts and a second in eight races for a point total of 29 and the division title. Notre Dame's Rich Doyle was second with 30 points and Dave McComb of M. I. T. finished third with...
...PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Compliance with the new public-accommodations law, which took effect last summer, has been good, on the whole. Negroes are received at restaurants and hotels even in such notorious centers of segregation as McComb, Miss., Birmingham, Ala., and Albany, Ga. There have been some violent cases of defiance: in Mississippi one Negro was beaten when he tried to eat at a lunch counter; another was shot when he patronized a theater. Often Negroes are served grudgingly, but sometimes they get "brown-skin service," meaning they are received with such elaborate courtesy that they are actually embarrassed. In many...
...class of 1,200, spent two years in local colleges shopping for majors, then moved with his Sicilian-'immigrant parents to California and entered the university at Berkeley Soon was "disenchanted." He "drifted" into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Snick") and last summer joined a Freedom School in McComb, Miss., to teach Negroes poetry history, math and genetics-"a good subject to show how black and white people are the same...
When he returned to Berkeley this fall, after a summer of civil rights work in McComb, Mississippi, Savio began to speak at rallies against University restrictions on campus political activity. As the rallies grew from a few hundred students to a few thousand, Savio became the feature attraction. In October, when 1500 demonstrators sat down around a patrol car and prevented police from removing an arrested student, Savio took off his shoes and climbed atop the car to address his followers. Commenting on the spectacle, the San Francisco Chronicle called Savio "a silver-tongued orator...