Word: wood
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However, School Committee chairman Mrs. Louise Day Hicks yesterday requested for the second time a request made by the Rev. Virgil Wood, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the southern Christian Leadership Conference for a meeting with King and a elegation of local civil rights leaders. Mrs. Hicks had said earlier she would meet with King but not persons who were "not the true leaders of the people...
...Boston Common rally will climax tomorrow morning's "March on Boston" by an expected 80,000 demonstrators. Wood said the purpose of the march, which is sponsored by 17 Boston and national groups, was "to dispell the illusion that a New Boston can be built without social justice...
Scott had only given up one hit in the first four innings, but in the fifth he walked B.U.'s Pat Petrone with one out. Jim Wood, the next batter, looped a single into right field, but was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a double. Petrone moved to third on the play, but the threat was seemingly erased as Terrier pitcher Gene McCarthy came to bat next. McCarthy, however, lashed out a single into right field which produced the only run of the game...
Attendance at next week's rally will probably be greater than that at a rally held last month, Wood said, because the Easter vacation will allow more students to participate...
...Wood announced that $19,796 of a projected $100,000 had been raised to pay for the march to Montgomery and to sponsor SCLC's summer project. Hosea Williams, one of King's assistants, will visit Harvard April 24, to recruit students for SCOPE (Summer Community and Political Education), which will work on voter registration, poverty, and education...