Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrested, heard the Rev. Martin Luther King, head of Atlanta's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, predict that willingness to go to jail "may well be the thing to awaken the dozing conscience of many of our white brothers." In Nashville, Fisk University's President Stephen J. Wright summed up the protest movement: "I see no cessation of this struggle in the foreseeable future. This is no student panty raid. It is a dedicated universal effort, and it has cemented the Negro community as it has never been cemented before...
Just before stepping out of an airtight mock-up nose cone at Ohio's Wright Air Development Center last week, Civilian Engineer Courtney Metzger took a swig of water. "It tastes much better than the ordinary kind in the supply tank," he reported to Space Physician John Paul Stapp. Agreed Stapp: "It's no worse than some of the stuff you get at cocktail parties." As part of Project Hermes, a program that aims to give the first space travelers all the comforts of hygiene, the water had been distilled from Metzger's urine...
Among the best: Dallas' 450-seat Kalita Humphreys Theater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which has a turntable stage flanked by two side stages, a unique lighting system, superstereophonic acoustics; Palm Beach's 813-seat Royal Poinciana Playhouse, whose stage apron curves out to provide more acting area, or, in the case of a musical, slides back to open an orchestra pit; Hollywood's 1,024-seat Huntington Hartford Theater, lavishly decorated with relief sculpture; Phoenix' 523-seat Sombrero Playhouse, which includes clubrooms and an art gallery...
Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...
...analysis of Republican cross-over voting by Chicago Correspondent Donald Janson, 4) a sidebar analysis by Chicago Bureau Chief Austin Wehrwein, 5) an analysis of New York Democratic reaction by Political Reporter Leo Egan, and 6) a New Jersey reaction analysis by Reporter George Cable Wright...