Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick and tired of white ideologues who exploit the Negro and riots as viciously as any lousy segregationist I've met in the South," he said...
...last four days invoking Martin Luther King's non-violence to choke potential riots has obscured the edge of the man's philosophy and the distinctiveness of his achievement. King was always a militant--his intent was to expose the white viciousness with which his non-violence was met. And so his assassination was not truly a shock; nor should the country sanctimoniously pretend not to understand why this man's death has provoked new bursts of despair and anger from the ghetto...
After working out for two days on the Detroit Tiger's practice field in Lakeland, Fla., the squad met the Florida Southern nine. Coach Norm Shepard used three pitchers, and alternated fifteen other players in the field to get a good look at his squad. Still, Harvard led until the bottom of the ninth when Southern scored the winning...
Some 300 young faculty members and graduate students from 68 U.S. campuses met at the University of Chicago last week with a grandiose goal: to design "a comprehensive program for radical university reform." Composed mainly of leftist activists, old and new, the "New University Conference" was infected with what one of its organizers called "the rampant disease of individualism." Nevertheless, the individualists agreed enough to set up committees to open a national office and try to start radical movements within their home faculties...
...would-be athlete, who pitched against baseball's All-Stars, quarterbacked the Detroit Lions and boxed against Archie Moore, but couldn't get himself to the altar until he was 41; and Freddy Espy, 26, Manhattan photo-studio assistant, a petite, slightly bewildered blonde whom he met at a party in 1963; in Manhattan. Considering the wait, George was in a positive sprint. Poor Freddy didn't find out until 10:30 a.m., seven hours before her wedding. Peter Duchin's wife, Cheray, who fixed up a friend's apartment for the ceremony, was luckier...