Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...park was conceived after the Southern Pacific railway company decided to convert much of its Watts right-of-way to industrial usage. The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration joined the act by forming the nonprofit Economic Resources Corporation to acquire additional land and run the park. Headed by an aggressive Negro entrepreneur named Richard Allen, ERC's board includes eight other Los Angeles businessmen, one of them black...
...quelling student outbursts." John Michael, a University of Kansas senior, argued that students would be disillusioned by Nixon's stand "because it seems to eliminate any form of dissent." Nixon has "contributed to the polarization of left and right," declared Roland Trope, a senior at the University of Southern California. "He forces the mid-left and the mid-right to make a choice, and so depopulates the center of its buffers. This is more dangerous than anything else...
That such a union should occur first in Texas came as a bit of a surprise, considering that John F. Kennedy had to defend his Catholicism before skeptical Protestant ministers in Houston during the 1960 presidential campaign. But many of those clergymen were Southern Baptists, who do not belong to the Texas Council of Churches, although they attended the founding ceremonies as observers. As it happened, the only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been...
Rounding a certain curve along the Appian Way, a modern traveler in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy easily imagines himself in the Middle Ages. On the hill opposite, like a romantic vision, sits an amphitheater of golden-tinted houses with red-tiled roofs rising row upon row to the double crown of a ducal palace and a Norman tower...
Change as Ruin. In Torregreca, no undue sentimentality was shown on either side. By 1959, beneath her Poughkeepsie patina, Miss Cornelisen had become a five-year veteran of Southern Italy, working for a British charity called the Save the Children Fund, bent on setting up nursery centers in recalcitrant mountain villages. Torregreca was the intended scene of her greatest triumph: a new master center where teachers could be developed and experiments initiated. Thus trained and dedicated, she soon found that the town's aura of Romantic gilt was misleading...