Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savings-and-loan executives testified that they had heeded Baker's formula for political activism. Stuart Davis, chairman of the board of Los Angeles' Great Western Financial Corp., related that in October 1962 he had toted $50,100 in cash in two envelopes to Washington-only to sit around his hotel room for three days waiting for Baker to return his call. Finally, said Davis, "I received a telephone call, saying he'd like to come down to my hotel and see me." Davis said that he got the two envelopes out of the hotel safe, handed...
Died. Robert J. H. Kiphuth, 76, Yale's peerless swimming coach from 1918 to 1959, who was only a fair-to-middling paddler himself but had such an eye for form, such a fetish for physical fitness and such a commitment to his sport (he would sit at the bottom of the pool in a diving suit to spot flaws invisible from above) that he won 528 dual meets (v. only twelve losses) and four national championships for Yale plus four Olympic victories for the U.S.; following an intestinal hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
Inside the clubs, the Princeton men sit at round tables and are served their vegetable soup by Negro servants in white coats and black bow ties. A servant calls a club man "Mr. Bradley," and a club man calls a servant "Thomas." After dinner, the club men retire to their walnut-panelled parlor to talk, smoke cigars and sip coffee. Then they wander off to the billiard tables downstairs or to the studies and library upstairs. Everything is refined and muted and comfortable...
...sometime Moderator of the Church of Scotland and-quite possibly- that nation's best-known living Protestant minister. In her New Year's Honors List, Queen Elizabeth raised Sir George to the rank of baron; he thus becomes the first Church of Scotland cleric ever entitled to sit in the House of Lords...
Students -- even those who refused to go along with the boycott of classes -- are demanding greater participation in the affairs of the university and want to share in at least some of the actual decision-making. The national press may have given more attention to the mass sit-ins, the abortive Filthy Speech Movement, and the famed nude parties in Berkeley, but the real issue on the campus is student (not non-student) power...