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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years...
Almost no one in Savannah seriously challenged the city's pattern of racial segregation until the sit-in demonstrations of 1959, Eisenman declared. Then racial tension rose to the point of "un-civil war." Demonstrators were arrested, street riots took place, and gun stores sold their entire stocks, he said...
...tragedy is that the West succeeded in creating another bogey man. When the Congolese Premier arrived in New York last summer to plead for United Nations aid, he impressed UN and State Department officials (including Secretary of State Herter) with his intelligence, sense of diplomacy, and awareness of danger on the left. But Mr. Lumumba offered only the friendship of an independent Congo, while the government seemed to demand the commitment of a dependent nation. Making a pathetic joke out of respect for "duly elected" government, the U.S. transformed the definition of "duly elected" into "pro-Western," by favoring...
...ahead for the Student Council, according to the President's prospectus: NSA participation, a "massive assault" on parietal hours, a new publication, a helping hand in finding summer jobs, planning for the 1961 Twentieth Century Week, a forum on drama, a world youth festival, a discussion on the House Un-American Activities Committee, creation of an Administrative Oversight Committee, work on an extra-curricular affairs coordinating council. It should be obvious which of these projects is beyond the realm of a sensibly-concentrated, efficient Student Council. Sorting them out should occupy the first day. In the next 99 days, maybe...
...place constitute a cemetery" under California law. Forest Lawn shoved the bodies of six indigents underground overnight when it won preliminary cemetery permits in both towns. The residents thus had no chance to appeal. To head off Covina opposition, Forest Lawn bought the land last May un der an individual's name, filed the deed in its name last November, the same day that it filed rezoning requests with the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission...