Word: omaha
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...Crimson's pitching and power should be enough to catapult it past the Redmen into the national tournament in Omaha, yet any further advances toward the championship will be difficult. The last Eastern representative to win the national title was Holy Cross and that...
Although the district selection committee will not decide until this evening on the play-off pairings, informed sources foresee a three-game series pitting Harvard against UMass over the Memorial Day weekend. The winner will play in the NCAA tournament championships June 11-17 in Omaha, Nebraska...
...October 22, 1963, a group of 47 people led by two clergymen stood up during a presentation of a zoning question at a meeting of the Omaha City Council and began singing "The Star Spangled Banner." After finishing the National Anthem, they marched around the council chamber singing "We Shall Overcome." The Council president asked them to desist. When they refused, he had them arrested for disturbing the meeting. The clergymen argued in court that their behavior was an act of conscience in the face of the refusal of the Council to enact a civil rights ordinance. Their demonstration, they...
Three years ago Harvard had a freshman team that stole attention from a varsity squad that won the Eeastern League and advanced to the Omaha World Series. That Yardling squad, the first undefeated team since 1900, averaged over ten runs per game and provided five starters for the next varsity...
...whites. As a first sergeant he became an effective negotiator between officers and men. "I insisted on the officers treating the men with dignity and eliminating all forms of brutality," he recalled. He later utilized the same middleman skills in service with Urban League units in St. Paul and Omaha, as dean of Atlanta University's School of Social Work, and upon joining the Urban League's national staff...