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...children. He eventually became the first Negro to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate (1875-81), where he vainly fought against a bill to exclude Chinese immigration and fought for the rights of American Indians. He was later named to important posts by Presidents Garfield, Harrison, and McKinley...
...days when, at the age of 13, he was blowing harmonica and singing for the Saturday night fish fries in Clarksdale, Miss. "I was making about 50? a night, a fish sandwich and half a pint of moonshine, and I was getting on," he recalls. Muddy was born McKinley Morganfield, 56 years ago. His mother died young, so his father sent him to be raised by his grandmother. "She used to say I'd sneak out and play in the mud when I was little, so she started calling me 'Muddy,' " he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce...
...house members heard of a hungry old woman who had been cut from welfare, they took up a $42 collection at the I Am coffeehouse, left her groceries, cash and a message that read simply "from Jesus." The house reaches large groups through its hard-rock band, the Wilson McKinley, which recently helped draw 8,000 to a "Sweet Jesus Rock Concert" at Stanford University. The Jesus People almost lost the crowd when one evangelist told the collegians they should "abstain from sexual immorality, and that means abstain except in marriage. We're finding this is the last area people...
After struggling for 18 days in blinding snow and biting wind to the 18,200-ft. level of Alaska's 22,320-ft. Mt. McKinley, five University of Oregon students and two teen-agers called it quits. But as the climbers saw it, the trip was hardly a waste of time. At the 17,200 ft. level they found heaps of junk discarded by previous climbers-ski bindings, socks, even underwear-plus tons of paper blown round the mountain by 100 m.p.h. winds that rake its frigid slopes...
...White House was once a building as accessible as the Congress is now. Originally, it would be thrown open on a regular basis for the public to greet the President. But gradually, reinforced by the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy, it has become closed to the average citizen. Though none of the assassinations occurred at the White House, once the President was established as a target, it was natural to increasingly fortify the place where he spent most of his time. Today, the ordinary citizen's personal access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is limited to a glimpse...