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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garnett Day Jr., an official of the Disciples of Christ, was about to emplane for New York when he heard that King was calling for help. Day walked back into the terminal, bought a ticket for Alabama. Also in Indianapolis, Jewish Mission Worker David Goldstein had an appointment to seek a salary raise from his boss; he canceled it and headed for Selma. California's Episcopal Bishop James Pike interrupted a trip to New Orleans and flew into Alabama. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, vice president of the National Council of Churches, came from Washington...
...heartening to U.S. and government forces, was scarcely a turning point in the war. The Viet Cong still roam virtually at will through South Viet Nam's central highlands, and recently have turned to a new, diabolical tactic. They are burning down whole villages, forcing the inhabitants to seek refuge in government-controlled sea-coast cities-and thus to overcrowd them...
Evaluating classroom performance is complex, but a growing number of university administrators are insisting that it can-and must-be done. Ohio State's new dean of faculties, Dr. John C. Weaver, recently warned that the university must "seek attractive, indeed compelling, reward and recognition for good undergraduate teaching." This should become "every bit as important an element in the formulae for promotion and salary increases as research and publication." If not, he said, "we would do well to close the university's doors...
...divine imperative." In the situational approach of the new morality, he said, "one enters into every decision-making moment armed with all the wisdom of the culture, but prepared in one's freedom to suspend and violate any rule except that one must as responsibly as possible seek the good of one's neighbor." Which is quite a long thought for an 18-year-old during a passionate moment in the back seat...
...high school senior in doubt about whether to seek a higher education, says Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, faces an unflattering proposition: "The machine now has a high school education in the sense that it can do most jobs that a high school graduate can do, so machines will get the jobs because they work for less than a living wage. A person needs 14 years of education to compete with machines...