Word: oles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blind Alley. Then there was James Meredith, still at the University of Mississippi at a cost of two lives, dozens of injuries and a U.S. Government investment of $4,500,000. Last week-three weeks after saying that he would not return to Ole Miss if conditions did not improve-Meredith announced that he would return for the second semester...
Died. John Siguard ("Ole") Olsen, 70, deadpan half of that durable comic duo, Olsen and Johnson, and the shrewd box-office mind who made their vaudeville epic, Hellzapoppin, play and pay for many years; of a heart attack; in Albuquerque...
...dominant mood of the four-day meeting, attended by 1,000 delegates and observers from 65 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish groups, was what one participant called "that awful fatalism.'' The Rev. Will D. Campbell, former chaplain at Ole Miss and an executive of the National Council of Churches, said flatly that "it is too late now for us to establish harmonious relationships between the races on a worldwide scale." In his prepared text, distributed but prudently omitted from the spoken version, Campbell claimed that racial hatred has reached such a pitch that "in our generation white children...
Meredith was annoyed when newsmen asked him about his grades at Ole Miss. The university has said nothing, but rumors persist that Meredith is doing poorly. "You people don't seem to understand," Meredith said. "Maybe you don't think it's a very serious situation. I hear over the radio that my father's house has been shot into and you ask me how my grades are. This is not a casual thing. My father is 71 years old. He has worked hard to send ten kids through school. It's a very serious...
...Sending Troops to Ole Miss: "I don't think that anybody who looks at the situation can think we could possibly do anything else. I recognize that it has caused a lot of bitterness against me and against the national Government in Mississippi and other parts...