Word: robert
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Fifty demonstrators from the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization briefly disrupted a talk by Robert H. Finch last Friday night in Sander's Theatre, charging that the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and his administration were ignoring the needs of the poor...
Three weeks ago, the Nixon Administration asked a federal court to delay the enforcement of an order requiring 30 Mississippi school districts to integrate this fall. According to Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch, the delay, which will forestall integration in these districts for at least a year, was necessary to prevent "chaos, confusion and a catastrophic educational setback." Last week, TIME Correspondent Marvin Zim traveled to Mississippi to examine Finch's premise in a district typical of those granted a reprieve. He sent this report...
...Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke is an "Oreo" cookie -black on the outside, white on the inside. "The N.A.A.C.P., Urban League and Martin Luther King were good for their time and context," says Marine Corporal Joseph Harris of Los Angeles, "but this is a new time." King and Robert Kennedy, once among the young black soldier's idols, have died violently, Says Wardell Sellers, a rifleman from New York: "They were trying to help the brothers-you can see what that got them." Now many blacks see the case of Edward Kennedy as a plot to remove one more hope...
...huge, flat, featureless areas like the 1,200-mile-long plain called Hellas. There are also vast expanses of jumbled, chaotic terrain, whose short ridges and small valleys are unlike any features on the moon and do not exist on so large a scale on earth. Concludes Caltech Geologist Robert Sharp: "Mars is definitely...
...family greets him with ridicule. Another job as a handyman on a reptile farm falls through when Kilgannon becomes so frightened of losing Natalie that he starts to let the animals out of their cages. He even interrupts Natalie's assignation with a Nebraska motorcycle cop (Robert Duvall), provoking an improbable denouement that obviously wanted to say something about violence in America but winds up merely as death by cinematic accident...