Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slap in the Face. Few Negroes took Powell's disgrace as calmly as Adam did. CORE's Floyd McKissick called the House vote a "slap in the face to every black man in this country." Ralph Bunche, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin joined in the chorus. At least one Negro who criticized the House for excluding a Negro also condemned Powell for his conduct...
...Leverett 175-lb final, Ralph Bittman gained a second round TKO after Charles Delony, who had been in command, threw out his right shoulder...
...final will be an all-Leverett affair with Charles Delony, last year's runner-up, fighting Ralph Dittman. Delony registered the day's only knockout yesterday when he downed Dieter Wahl of Kirkland House with a right cross in the second round...
...elaborately elevatored glider (see diagram) lasted 9.4 seconds. Distance awards went to Berkeley Physicist Robert Meuser (89 ft.) and Stewart-Warner Corp. Engineer Louis W. Schultz, whose 11-in.-long delta wing, made of graph paper, flew 58 ft. 2 in. before skidding to a stop. Pioneer Naval Aviator Ralph S. Barnaby, 74, took the aerobatics prize with a stabilizer-equipped glider that gracefully floated through two complete outside loops. Brown University Anthropologist James Sakoda folded his way to the origami award; his swept-wing craft proved air-worthless, but the judges admired it all the same for its "elegance...
...over the past decade (from an average of $4,239 to $6,821), teachers still earn far less than many workers of comparable training and less responsibility. During the same period, the number of men in public-school teaching has risen from one-fourth to one-third. Today, says Ralph Paul Joy, an assistant director of the National Education Association, teachers are too aroused merely to present a "timid, trembling salary request on ditto paper" and hold meetings merely for "the passing of the gavel and the pinning of the orchids...