Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hayneville, Ala., School Superintendent Hulda Coleman (sister of the man who is charged with the Aug. 20 murder there of Civil Rights Worker Jonathan M. Daniels) presided briskly over the uneventful enrollment of four Negro pupils. In Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers were slain a year ago, nine Negroes attended the Neshoba County schools. When a white boy threw a pop bottle at a Negro girl, Principal Prentice Copeland promptly paddled the troublemaker's bottom, put him on probation and made him apologize. Despite taut racial tensions in Bogalusa, La., where violence occurred recently, hesitant Negro children...
...months did little except dig trenches, winning Georges Clemenceau's scorn as "the gardeners of Salonika." Commander in Chief Maurice Sarrail of France was a political general who spent far more time intriguing to unseat Greece's King Constantine (who was married to the Kaiser's sister) than in mounting offensives. Sarrail did have one triumph: by wheeling up the French fleet before Piraeus, he forced Constantine's abdication...
Massachusetts likes to remind its sister states that it is first in several educational fields. Last week in the Statehouse atop Beacon Hill, Republican Governor John Volpe boasted about some of those historical attainments: first public school (1635), first U.S. college (1636), first state board of education (1837), first state teacher-training college (1839), first compulsory school attendance law (1852). Then he proudly signed a bill making Massachusetts the first state to ban de facto school segregation...
Married. Rosemary Park, 58, accomplished daughter of one college president (Wheaton), sister of another (Simmons), herself president of two colleges (Connecticut College 1947-62, Barnard since 1962); and Milton Vasil Anastos, 56, professor of Byzantine Greek at the University of California; he for the second time; in Greenwich, Conn...
...that charges admission and turns a modest profit. Plans for a grander museum, for a hospital, for a literary contest in his memory, have had to wait while the committee settles quarrels among its own membership and disputes in court with lawyers representing Marianna Gibran, the poet's sister, who lives in Boston and was not remembered in his will...