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The week before the Yale meet I walked into Coach Gambril's office to arrange an interview. His first sentence to me: "I'm just trying to finish up this season, but I'm mostly working on next year." Which is fine for Gambril and the freshmen, but hardly contributed...

Author: By Raymond A. Urban, | Title: California Don Comes to Harvard | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

Prescott gives particularly detailed accounts of White House policy sessions, during both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. And who but the indefatigable Prescott would have discovered that after meeting the Khrushchevs in Vienna in 1961, Jackie Kennedy observed to her husband as they prepared for bed: "I rather like him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOAXES: The Midnight Penman Returns | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

And so the Patrolmen came in and "turned and fired into the park area-simultaneously as they fired into the dormitory," Having made their point, they picked up their cartridge shells and filed a report, as fictional as Faulkner, that spoke of snipers on the roof tops and an uppity...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Jackson State Old Times There Are Forgotten | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

Sir: Men hate an "uppity" woman; they also hate an "aggressive" woman. Ours has been a Jane Crow society for several thousands of years, and the master group always fears its chattels more than any foreign enemy. When one's inferior status is taken for granted, any attempt on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1971 | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

Wyche was considered "uppity" by town whites years ago, when that was a dangerous label. He was trying to get blacks registered to vote as far back as the late 1940s. Even before that, he says, he was openly flouting segregation, drinking out of whites-only water fountains, refusing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality: Top Cop in Tallulah | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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