Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not continue-you are ordered to stop and stand where you are." King asked Cloud if it was all right to "have some of the great religious leaders of our nation lead us in prayer." When permission was granted, King motioned to his longtime friend, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. As hundreds in the parade knelt in the sunlight, Abernathy intoned: "We come to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. We don't have much to offer, but we do have our bodies, and we lay them on the altar today." Other prayers followed, and when they were...
...Jackson was eulogized by civil rights leaders as another martyr to the cause. At the first of two crowded funeral services, 1,000 Negroes jammed into a church in nearby Selma, site of Martin Luther King's voter-registration drive, and heard King's aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, declare: "Jimmie Jackson has taken his rightful place alongside such men as Crispus Attucks [a Negro shot to death by redcoats in the Boston Massacre], Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Brown, Medgar Evers...
...Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 26: the broad jump at the Golden Gate Invitational track meet, beating the U.S.'s Ralph Boston in the rubber match of their winter duel; at San Francisco. In two previous meets, each had won once, and the total margin between them was ¼ in. This time Ter-Ovanesyan leaped 26 ft. 4 in., beat Boston...
Navy pole vaulter Mike Brown, who has cleared 16 feet, is the meet's closest thing to a sure winner. Teammate Courtland Gray, who beat Elias Gilbert, Ralph Boston, and Aggrey Awori to win the BAA high hurdles, ranks a close second among the solid favorites...
...rivalry is as friendly as it is fierce. Two weeks ago, when they met at the Los Angeles Times Indoor Games, Ralph was wearing a Russian beanie, a souvenir from last summer's U.S.-Russia track meet. "It's my good-luck piece," he explained, and he needed it. On his first jump, Boston soared 26 ft. Ter-Ovanesyan quickly topped that with a leap of 26 ft. 3 in. Then, in the final round, Boston uncorked a floating leap of 26 ft. 4¾ in. to go out in front once again. The Russian gave...