Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Program also provides for professors from the four Atlanta colleges to teach at the 19 mainly Northern and Western institutions which have joined the project. But the sponsors say that exchanges will not always be possible, and the focus of the program is on bringing scholars to Atlanta...
...sense of personal loss that pervaded the nation with his death, Martin Luther King's heritage of nonviolence seemed to have endured its architect's demise. Those who predicted that racial pacifism had passed with him were contradicted last week from Harlem to Watts, in Northern ghettos and Southern grit towns, where black leaders and youths in great numbers took to the tense streets and urged their brothers to "cool it for the Doc." Mississippi's Charles Evers curbed a Jackson rising with Kingly oratory. Even such hardcore militants as Harlem Mau Mau Leader Charles 37X Kenyatta...
These are procedural points. Next would come the fundamental issues. The U.S. wants the withdrawal of all Northern forces from the South, an end to Viet Cong insurrection, and assurances that the South would have a reasonable chance to remain non-Communist and independent. Hanoi's maximum goals are contained in the oft-stated four points of 1965, which-among other things-call for complete U.S. military withdrawal, settling of South Viet Nam's internal affairs on N.L.F. terms, and eventual reunification (i.e., Communization) of North and South "without foreign interference...
...were no cheering crowds when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin came to Teheran for a week-long state visit. But no difference: Kosygin was more than welcome. After years of nearly total dependence on the West, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is turning his country increasingly toward Russia, his once hostile northern neighbor, seeking friendship, trade and backing for his ambitious industrial development plans. At the same time, his relations with the West, and in particular with the U.S., are becoming increasingly strained...
...sweeping all four of the game's major tournaments: the U.S. and British Amateurs, the U.S. and British Opens. Retiring after his Grand Slam, Jones decided to build an "ideal" golf club on the site of an old indigo plantation in Augusta, a popular winter watering place for Northern socialites. The plantation's Georgian manor house was converted into a clubhouse, Scottish Architect Alister MacKenzie was commissioned to design a course that would, in Jones's words, "simulate the conditions of British seaside golf firm greens, even a little breeze"-and two years later, Augusta National...