Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderate civil rights organizations-the N.A.A.C.P., the National Urban League and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference-boycotted the sessions. Their fears were confirmed. For the first time in CORE's history, the Black Muslims and other extreme Ne gro nationalists were not only permitted to share the platform but were favorably mentioned by the convention's leaders. The hall rang with chants of "Black power! Black power! Black power!" Said one shocked Roman Catholic nun, who was among the relatively few whites present: "This is the Congress for Racial Superiority...
...Government now spending billions of dollars annually on research, many U.S. schools have decided that it makes sense to have men who specialize in developing good Washington contacts. At least 20 universities consider the job of keeping watch on how the pie is divided important enough to have or share a full-time representative in the capital...
...Evil, Inept. Many major institutions, such as Harvard and Chicago, assume that the prestige of their faculties is sufficient to get a normal share of federal research grants. Academic lobbyists, sniffs Charles Daly, Chicago's vice president for public affairs, "are like all lobbyists, appallingly bad-not bad in the sense of being evil, just inept." Inept or not, many a smaller college has apparently decided that the Washington consultant may be the only way to attract the Government's attention when the money is being passed around...
Lyndon Johnson took a notion to press the flesh with the folks in Omaha and Des Moines last week. Invited along were Daughter Luci Baines and Fiancé Pat Nugent, who attracted their share of attention-and then some. Luci, who admits to being a "theatrical person," wore a dazzling orange dress and outsized, orange-rimmed sunglasses. As for Pat, who was having troubles with an errant zipper on his trousers, limelight was the last thing he wanted. Afterward, the young couple headed down to the L.B.J. ranch for the holiday weekend and Luci's 19th birthday party...
...racism. The organization no longer has a friendly working relationship with Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which is opposed to Carmichael's philosophy and irritated by his financial fecklessness. Though S.N.C.C., King's group and the Congress of Racial Equality were supposed to share the Mississippi march expenses (more than $25,000), King wound up holding the bill, and has let it be known that his organization will henceforth work alone in Mississippi...