Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NORTH CAROLINA. Even before the Civil Rights Act, the state had desegregated most of its public accommodations. For the first time, Wake Forest College added Negro football players to its freshman team. Western Carolina College boasted a Negro basketball star. Two Ku Klux Klansmen were given stiff jail terms for trying to burn a Negro church. Twenty-one school districts were integrated. More than 240,000 Negroes registered to vote...
Goldwater's ascendancy at San Francisco brought these press theorists up short; the man so widely dismissed as a possibility was now the Republican Party's choice. But in the wake of the convention, the press defended its misjudgment with a spate of fresh anti-Goldwater comment. "Practically all of Goldwater's votes and views," said the Sacramento Bee, which had opposed Barry all along, "tend toward the enslavement of Americans." Said the Denver Post, "The Republican Party had its eyes open when it nominated Senator Barry Goldwater. It took the step deliberately; it knew what...
Lingering Anarchy. Taylor, who was to return to the U.S. this week for consultations, had no real alternative. Though the mobs were off the streets, anarchy had lingered in the wake of Khanh's departure. Harvard-educated Acting Premier Nguyen Xuan Oanh (known as Jack Owen) had only been going through the motions of governing, in fact wielded no real authority. The "triumvirate" of Khanh, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh and Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, which supposedly replaced Khanh's junta, was not really working. The students were still restive, and the Buddhists were demanding-successfully...
...backed him for the top spot in '60), was there partly to maintain the suspense over the vice-presidency and partly to get some visibility for his own campaign for reelection. In the car, Humphrey was sound asleep. Lyndon grabbed Humphrey's arm, shook him and said, "Wake up, Hubert." The three went into the White House, where Lyndon first held a private talk with Dodd, then with Humphrey...
...will be obsolete in a decade, and half of what he will need to know then has not yet been discovered. "If you're not studying all the time," says J. M. Shelton, production foreman at aerospace-minded Ling-Temco-Vought in Dallas, "you're going to wake up without a job." Matching the pace of onrushing technology is a matter of business survival - and the reason that company-financed schooling is the fastest-growing form of adult education...