Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of Judge Jones's ruling, the ministers were liable for immediate collection of the first $500,000 judgment. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy's one-twelfth interest in a 307-acre Marengo County tract was sold for $4,350. Abernathy's five-year-old Buick sedan was auctioned off for $400, and the cars of two other ministers were attached. All told, the first efforts at collection raised some $6,000. With the judgment effective for at least 10 years, the ministers face two choices: 1) they can sue for recovery from the New York Times...
Married. Eunice Bailey Oakes, about 32, British-born beauty and the widow of William Pitt Oakes, whose father, Sir Harry Oakes, was mysteriously murdered in Nassau in 1943; and Robert David Lion Gardiner, fiftyish, longtime bachelor and owner of Gardiner's Island, a 3,300-acre tract off eastern Long Island that has been in the family since 1639 and that becomes the property of Yale if there are no Gardiner heirs; in New York City. An outpouring of diamond-studded society made it the winter's most glittering wedding...
...have not recounted the full story of Chalk Circle; the play contains a prologue, setting the action within the Soviet Union. The War is over, and a tract of land must be redistributed amongst various collective farmers. The Chalk Circle sequence, or the play proper, is thus set as a play within the play, designed to point the moral that the Soviets will invariably make the right and just decisions...
...bizarre. In the West Covina suburb of Los Angeles county last week, housewives with binoculars kept day-long vigil from ranch-house picture windows, while at night the husbands took over. One manned a spotlight on the entrance to a road running through a 1,100-acre tract of West Covina wilderness. Others, on horseback, patrolled the tract's borders, looking for signs of surreptitious spadework. What West Covina's residents were trying to do was prevent the expansion into their split-level suburb of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, the chain of cemeteries dedicated to Builder Hubert Eaton...
...followers, is the continent's biggest religion, far surpassing Christianity with its 34 million. Nasser is out to convince 75 million Africans who still worship old bush gods that Christianity is tainted with "imperialism," that Islam is the only faith fit for a free Africa. Says one Cairo tract, printed in Swahili and other African languages: "Christian missionaries preach one wife to you in order to make your race diminish. Islam permits four wives." So all-corrupting was Christian colonialism's influence, says Mohammed Heikal, editor of Cairo's Al Ahram, that it has even caused good...