Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made his last and most historic stop, arriving in Washington in a blaze of sunshine and a feast of good will. For the first time, a Pope was visiting the White House, a happening that would have been inconceivable in U.S. politics just two decades ago. Warmly, graciously, the Southern Baptist President of the U.S. greeted the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Gathered on the North Lawn of the White House for the official greeting were 3,500 guests, including many of the ranking figures of the Government...
...little shopping area straddling northern Dorchester and southern Roxbury, whose life has bobbed up and down and up again with the social tides that have swept the Boston area. Boston is a city of ethnic neighborhoods, and Uphams Corner has seen its share -Irish, then blacks, then Spanish...
When the first of Johnson's school bills seeking Government aid for parochial schools was on the Hill, old prejudices flared a final time. Aide Bill Moyers took a call one day in Johnson's absence to hear the protests of a ranking Southern Baptist. The caller wanted to talk to the President himself about how he could have got so tangled up with the Catholics. "He's in the swimming pool with Dr. Graham," said Moyers. "Who?" asked a diminished voice. "The President is in the swimming pool with Dr. Billy Graham," said Moyers. There...
...coast of Japan did bear some striking similarities. In Tokyo last week Japan's top defense official, Ganri Yamashita, reported to the Cabinet that over the past year the Soviet Union has deployed up to 12,000 combat troops on Shikotan and two other isles in the southern Kurils, less than twelve miles off Japan's northeastern shore. The division-level force, he said, was equipped with tanks, SAM antiaircraft missiles and about a dozen Hind assault helicopters...
Farmers in the southern part of the state are now organizing too. Activists in the Southern Landowners' Association have told GASP that their organizational efforts will make GASP'S struggle "seem like a kintergarden picnic...