Word: yakima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the cozy summer tutoring in such basic subjects as reading, history and math, most of the 50 panicked amid the confusion of registration and the difficulty of lengthy reading assignments. An Indian girl took one look at the teeming campus, grabbed the next bus to her home in Yakima, 234 miles away, and had to be coaxed back. The group's first-quarter grade average was 1.8, and most were placed on probation. Jim Shoaf, who would like to become a jet pilot, is one of those on probation, seems more interested in his motorcycle than...
Divorced. William O. Douglas, 67, Supreme Court Justice for 25 years; by Joan Martin Douglas, 26, his third wife; on uncontested grounds of cruel treatment and personal indignities; after less than three years of marriage (she won the right to resume her maiden name); in Yakima, Wash...
Something Missed. That fall Douglas separated from his second wife and moved to a bachelor apartment. A precociously distinguished jurist and an outdoorsman of rare dedication, Douglas had in 1923 married Mildred Riddle, a girl he had met while both taught at Yakima, Wash., high school. Mildred worked to help him through Columbia University Law School, bore him a son and daughter. But after 30 years of marriage, in 1953, she divorced him, charging that he left her "abandoned and alone" while working and graveling "to remote places in the world...
...former Mayor La Guardia in his unorthodox approach to problems that Detroiters sometimes call Mariani "Our Little Flower." This spring, rather than sit back and bemoan slow auto sales, Mayor Mariani decided to do something about them. Off to 1,379 fellow mayors in cities from Vineland, N.J., to Yakima, Wash., went personal letters, urging them to step up purchases of city-owned cars, trucks and parts that would normally be bought after July 1. If replacements for some of the 80,000 vehicles used in their cities could be bought earlier, explained Louie Mariani, the predicted upturn...
...public seemed to be getting the Johnson unity-candidate message. On his arrival in Spokane, he was serenaded by a group of Yakima Valley Junior College students singing a song that a student had composed for the occasion. Sample stanza...