Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlisted in the Marine Corps only two days before, was on his way home from his job as a drive-in movie projectionist. He stopped near a crowd, including some acquaintances, on a downtown street close to the Sumter County Courthouse. There, 250 Negroes were holding an all-night "vigil," demanding the unconditional release of four Negro women jailed on a charge of "blocking the entrance to a polling place" when they tried to vote in a line reserved for white women...
Last April the emergency committee, which is sponsored by the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, took a two-page ad in the New York Times to proclaim: MR. PRESIDENT: IN THE NAME OF GOD, STOP IT! Many of its members showed up in Washington a month later for a mass vigil at the Pentagon, protesting escalation of the Viet...
...hostelry the Broadmoor. Legend has it that once a spotter with binoculars kept vigil in its tower, and when he cried, "Here come a bunch of Osages!", the rate on the bridal suite immediately was tripled, and the arriving oil-rich redskins always were installed there with sly but obsequious ceremony. Like most Western legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession...
DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live telecast of an Easter Vigil service, an ancient Catholic tradition revived in 1951 by Pius XII, now celebrated for the first time in English, from the Church of St. Gregory the Great in Baltimore...
Purring like contented kittens, the most remarkable support crew ever assembled kept unceasing vigil last week as Gemini spun through space with its two passengers. At Cape Kennedy and at the space complex in Houston, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and at 14 other sites from the Canary Islands to the South Indian Ocean, dozens of electronic computers guided, watched, advised and occasionally admonished the two astronauts. In fact, the Space Age's first orbiting digital computer, a hatbox-sized model that can make 7,000 separate calculations a second, went along for the ride in Gemini...