Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy enlisted man and the son of a local schoolteacher, Younge was a so-so student who preferred to make his mark as an energetic civil rights organizer. He helped run a Negro boycott of local markets, led a group that attempted to integrate the municipal swimming pool and Tuskegee's all-white First Methodist Church. Last week, just before his death, he spent hours in the downtown Macon County Courthouse helping some 40 Negro would-be voters to register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station...
...populations had endured for years. Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta's Yaméogo built himself a sumtuous country retreat with a swimming pool, while farmers still desperately seek water holes on the arid plains to keep their cattle from thirsting to death...
...rare in Africa that it would seem to have little in common with Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of the jaw that is prevalent among children in tropical Africa. Yet last week top researchers from eleven countries journeyed to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to pool their knowledge of both diseases. Some temperate-zone doctors suspect that both cancers may be caused by viruses, and they hoped, by studying the tropical lymphoma, to pick up tips on the "blood cancer" they call leukemia...
...turnout for squash is again extremely large, and the Houses have a great pool of talent from which to draw their "A" teams. The league's outstanding players are Doug MacDonald and Don Frendenberg (Lowell House), Tim Carter and Larry Rand (Adams), and Rob Howard (Kirkland...
Vincent Conroy, director of the Center for Field Studies at the Graduate School of Education, said yesterday that a Boston committee which is studying desegregation training programs that would be financed under the Civil Rights Act may pool its efforts with the suburban towns...