Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until then, Ellen Jackson, a 31-year old Negro mother in Roxbury, had not been involved in the school disputes. She had been a parent counselor for the Northern Student Movement, but nothing more controversial than that. But Mrs. Jackson had four children in the three affected schools. And so she rose one evening in a Project Headstart meeting to ask that Negro parents mobilize against the threat of double sessions...
Magnates & Musicians. The newcomers inestimably enriched the U.S., making it the mast incredibly diverse nation on earth. Even today, 34% of the Northeast is composed of "foreign stock," a Census Bureau classification that includes those born outside the U.S. and those who have at least one parent born outside the country. More than 20% of the population of California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and 15 other states are of foreign stock. The immigrants helped to build the great cities and shift the balance of American life away from the farm. Half of the people in New York, Boston and Detroit...
...ticket holder: "In all honesty, I'd probably not walk across the street to hear an opera, but this - this is some thing special." Special it was, not only for Indianapolis but for the U.S.: the world premiere of the Metropolitan Opera National Company. It came as the parent Met was ringing up the curtain on its New York season - the last before it moves from its old quarters to a new building at Lincoln Center...
That was putting it mildly. In autocratic Otto's years as lord high executioner of foreign aid bills, the chairman of his parent committee had been Missouri's curmudgeonly Clarence Cannon, another handout hater, who gave Passman a free hand to slash as he saw fit. But when Cannon died last year, the House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign...
Both sides were ready .for a strike, if it came. United Steelworker locals dusted off strike signs, prepared rosters of pickets, set aside emergency relief funds; in case there was an unexpectedly long walkout, the parent union could dip into a $20 million surplus. Steelmen halted deliveries of coal, limestone and iron ore as of this week, began clearing their yards of freight cars to avoid paying demurrage charges, sent orders out to start cooling off the giant open-hearth furnaces...