Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grew. Ashe's dramatic triumphs established him as the most promising young U.S. player in years. A policeman's son, he was born in Richmond, Va., grew up only a few yards from a tennis court, where he started batting tennis balls around as soon as he was able to hold a racket. In 1953, a Lynchburg physician, Walter Johnson, spotted Ashe as a potentially fine player. Dr. Johnson knows his tennis talent. It was he who helped steer Althea Gibson (TIME cover...
...passengers, many of whom had seen the 6,083-lb. outboard engine drop off, already knew that the problem was not so minor. Their first inkling of trouble came right after takeoff when someone yelled: "Look, the wing is on fire!" Mrs. William Richmond, who was filming the takeoff from her right-window seat over the wing, kept right on shooting as the wing erupted in flames. A few rows behind her, James Krick aimed his still camera at the disintegrating wing. Others were not so calm. The four-and six-year-old daughters of Kaleo Schroder, a Richmond, Calif...
...Look Homeward, Angel Tom Wolfe, not by fifty gallons of corn pone, but a well-mannered young fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale, round face that looks more like 24 than 34. This is a Wolfe in chic's clothing: off-white suit, lemon-colored tie, brown-and-white pin-stripe shirt with French cuffs, wine-colored silk handkerchief puffing out of the jacket pocket-when he gets dressed up, in short, he looks like a well-polished Pierce-Arrow...
Head Start is part of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, run by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity. It is directed by ten professionals, headed by Dr. Julius B. Richmond, dean of New York's State University Upstate Medical Center faculty and a lifelong researcher in effects of deprivation on children. Most communities were given a mere six weeks to work out their local plans to qualify for the 90% share of federal money...
Challenging this notion is small (1,050 students), Quaker-founded Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. Its pres ident, Landrum Boiling, observes that "our justification for existence and for charging the relatively high fees we do must be that we do a superb job of teaching." Toward that end, Earlham got a $20,000 grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, under which Earlham teachers can invite experts in their fields to sit in their classrooms, observe their techniques and assess their abilities...