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...total museum, the Met embraces all the muses. In its collection are 4,000 musical instruments from a baroque organ to Alpine zithers; and the museum's three Stradivarius violins are regularly lent for concerts in the Met's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Its priceless collection of 1,450 Greek pots includes all the known shapes of Attic vases across three centuries, except for one, an elusive type of lekythos. One corner of the museum contains an unequaled war lord's ransom of well-wrought jade in the Heber R. Bishop collection...
...Democracy's College." In 1901, when University of Chicago President William Rainey Harper helped found Joliet Junior College, the nation's first public two-year college, he thought of it as a mere extension of high school: "Students should complete their basic education before coming to college." Now Edmund J. Gleazer Jr., executive director of the American Association of Junior Colleges, envisions "a new kind of college standing between the high school and the university-democracy's college of this century...
...jury quickly handed down indict ments against 18 men, including Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, 41, his deputy Cecil Price, 26, and several Klan members. They were charged with violating a broad 1870 U.S. law, originally passed to curtail the Klan, and prohibiting interference with constitutional rights...
...days said, "I was a paranoid, I started to flinch every time I saw a police car. I had to remind myself that I wasn't in Mississippi." The fear was in the hearts of the COFO workers, not the natives, not the guntoting "peace" officers typified by Sheriff Rainey and his deputy...
...suggest that Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Cecil Price [Dec. 18] volunteer for the Peace Corps and serve in the Congo...