Word: meetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their number. They met in an unprecedented act of rebellion to discuss a petition of protest to Attorney General Mitchell. The day before, the Justice Department had gone into federal court to retreat from the Government's previous insistence that 33 recalcitrant Mississippi school districts meet this year's deadline for desegregation-after a federal district court in Jackson, Miss., had requested that HEW draw up a plan for each district, to be put into effect this month. Finch asked that the move be delayed until December, contending that the plans had been hastily drawn and unclear...
...honor. Mrs. McCormack invariably wears the same black dress. The rest of the year, it is just the two of them. McCormack boasts that in more than 50 years, "we've never missed having dinner together." His wife, no longer spry at 85, is still eager to meet her husband for lunch or go for a drive with him in his long black Speaker's limousine...
...Holy Land. With him were 23 members of his anti-Communist Christian Crusade, seeking, said Hargis, "a spiritual blessing and reaffirmation of faith." But there was a bonus. "Our trips to Israel are not only religious," Hargis reminded his faithful entourage. "I want you anti-Communists to meet anti-Communists in other parts of the world. Israel is a bastion against Communism...
Ferocious Neighbors. The evidence comes, in part, from Africa's Omo River Basin, a fossil-rich area where the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and the Sudan meet. There, a University of Chicago expedition has found 40 prehistoric teeth and two jawbones buried in volcanic ash that is perhaps 4,000,000 years old. The expedition's leader, Anthropologist F. Clark Howell, is convinced that the creatures are members of the Australopithecus family, even though they must have belonged to a branch that probably did not eat meat or make tools. Despite their proximity to various ferocious neighbors...
Annual interest rates on Eurodollars have fallen to 11 % from a peak of 13% , which was reached for a day or two in the second quarter. U.S. banks had been borrowing huge quantities of such dollars on deposit in Europe in order to meet their loan commitments at home. Lately the banks' appetite for such deals has been declining. Of more immediate interest to consumers, mortgage interest rates have declined ever so slightly. Mortgages auctioned off to private investors last week by the Federal National Mortgage Association brought an average yield of 7.8%, down from a peak...