Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step toward insuring that education of the pupils of the Houghton School will not suffer during the two years between the demolition of their old building and the opening of the new one. The Committee approved the construction of temporary classrooms for the children and asked Acting City Manager Ralph J. Dunphy to find a suitable location for them...
...Ralph Abernathy, successor to King as president of the SCLC, will be in Boston May 9 to launch the northeastern caravan...
...increasingly irritated local establishment. While many white Memphians initially supported Loeb's stand, they soon fretted over their city's fading image and the threat of more Negro boycotts and street violence. Just before the strike's end last week, King's successor, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, played on their fears by promising to treat Memphis to "the most militant nonviolent steps ever taken...
Publisher Ralph Ginzburg blazed such paths of prurience in advertising his magazine Eros that he was haled into court on obscenity charges and given a five-year sentence that was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Still free pending a hearing for a reduced sentence, Ginzburg is anything but penitent. For months he has been expensively promoting a new magazine, Avant-Garde, which promises to emulate if not outdo Eros. One page of a recent ad shows a girl, eyes shut, mouth open, in ecstasy. On the opposite page is prose to match, describing the magazine's contents...
...City Athletics are now the Oakland Athletics and they still don't look very impressive. A fellow named Larry Shepard, pitching coach last year of the Philadelphia Phillies, is managing the Pittsburgh Pirates in place of Danny Murtaugh, and 30-odd other coaches have switched jobs. Yankee Manager Ralph Houk was crowing about the new faces on his ball club-six all told, with three in the starting line-up-and his new go-go offense...