Word: pickering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom since Monroe's first festival in 1967. "The rudiments are easy to learn-although there's no end to what can be done in terms of technical achievement...
...Harvey Picker, dean of Faculty of the School of International Affairs, said last night Columbia has had "no recent contact" with Kissinger. The university, however, had contacted Kissinger about a position earlier in the year, Picker added...
...Harvey Picker, dean of Columbia's faculty of International Affairs, last night denied that the university had offered Kissinger a professorship...
During his mission, Stromberg found himself paired with a potato picker from Idaho, a reformed thief from Baltimore and a Japanese missionary who introduced Stromberg to the language, customs, and life he would have to lead. But Stromberg found it very easy to get along with his companions: "You forget a lot of yourself when you're working with somebody to accomplish a common goal that exists outside of yourself.," he says. "Especially one you're totally dedicated to and believe...
...Jordan?hold seats in the House. There are 99 black state legislators, ranging from Georgia's 22 to Virginia's two, out of a total of 1,782 seats available. Only one Southern black has been elected to office by statewide vote: he is Joseph Hatchett, 44, a fruit picker's son who won a place on the Florida Supreme Court. Last week Howard Lee, a black former mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., got 46% of the vote in a Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor ?a good showing, but not enough. In Mississippi, Fred Banks...