Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of her husband's death, Mrs. King was unaware of his plans to speak at Harvard, according to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference office in Atlanta, King was president of SCLC...
While Joe Tibbetts was racking up a substantial 3 and 2 margin over Mike McMahon of M.I.T., Tommy Wynne, the last of the Crimson winners, finally broke out of the slump he has been in since the Southern tour with a 4 and 3 trouncing of Tom Thomas...
...three weeks since then, Humphrey has made little secret of his intentions as he sewed together an improbable coalition of big labor and industry, Northern liberals and Southern Governors. Last week, having secured the endorsements of Louisiana's moderate Governor John McKeithen-a possible running mate-and New York City's former Mayor Robert Wagner, the United Democrats for Humphrey, led by Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris and Minnesota's Walter Mondale, with Harry Truman as honorary chairman, opened up shop in Washington...
...Over the past few months, North Korea has speeded up the recruitment and training of its 1,200,000-man "People's Militia," massed most of its 340,000-man army in the southern part of the country, and organized a special 20,000-man commando force for sabotage and guerrilla warfare missions over the border. It has launched 321 raids in the past year, a 600% increase over the year before. One such mission was designed to assassinate Park, but it failed (TIME, Feb. 2); not long after, the U.S.S. Pueblo was hijacked. The South does not expect...
...concerned about the economic gap between business and the barracks is Standard Oil of New Jersey, which offers a flat two months' induction pay plus 50% of the difference between service and civilian pay for married men as long as they are on active duty. Atlanta-based Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. pays a 100% differential for up to six months, while Dow Chemical men go off to war with a check for up to two months' pay. Western Electric pro vides full differential pay for the first three months of active duty, plus an other three...