Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The basic need of the black colleges-as, indeed, of all schools-is more money. The commission recommended a tripling of federal aid, to $360 million per year. But the schools also require a lot more help from the private sector. Last year the Nixon Administration responded to the pleas...
In fact, all you are likely to see in the papers is articles like this one, telling you how everyone has stopped caring and reporting. And on a typical day last week, no one who showed up to witness what John Froines last spring called the "focus of the whole...
The demonstrations were apparently a response to the pleas of Nguyen Thi Binh, Chief delegate at Paris for the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, for all opposed to the war to "take actions now that could check the plan for even greater escalation."
In December, the Akron city council ordered local stores to quit selling detergents containing phosphates by June 30, 1972. Reason: phosphates, a prime source of water pollution, are forcing cities like Akron to build more and more costly sewage-treatment plants. Last week the Soap and Detergent Association, whose members...
A tall (6 ft. 5 in.), powerfully built and forcefully spoken pastor, Sullivan will bring to the board a valuable sensitivity to current trends. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s, when he organized boycotts against companies that ignored his pleas to hire more blacks. Later he switched...