Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unless all signs fail, this session of Congress will mark the nth time that Federal aid to education has been blocked by the irrelevant demands of pressure groups. In past years, it was certain self-styled Negro leaders--notably Adam Clayton: Powell, Jr.--who sabotaged the program. By inserting amendments prohibiting aid to segregated schools, Powell no doubt gained some votes in Harlem. He also insured enough Southern opposition to defeat the whole measure...
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. The Juilliard String Quartet: Robert Mann and Isidore Cohen, violins; Raphael Hillyer, viola: Class Adam, cello. Sanders Theatre: 8:30 P.M. Free tickets may be obtained by writing the Mason Music Foundation, 59 Fayerweather Street, and enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
TWENTIETH CENTURY CHAMBER MUSIC. A concert of works by Ives, Ruggles, Schoenberg, Webern, Varese and others. Adam House Junior Common Room; 8:15 P.M. Free
Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, whose frenetic schedule sometimes even includes a House roll call, was occupied on other fronts last week. In Manhattan, he launched a $450,000 expansion project for his Abyssinian Baptist Church, threatened three collections per Sunday service until the crash campaign was completed. In the capital for a radio interview the same day. Preacher Powell, who has been indicted but never convicted in a still pending income-tax-evasion case, exuded brotherly love for Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Said the House Education and Labor Committee chairman: "Mr. Hoffa has completely vindicated himself...
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. The Julliard String Quartet: Robert Mann and Isidore Cohen, violins; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Claus Adam, cello. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Free tickets may be obtained by writing the Mason Music Foundation, 59 Fayweather Street, and enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope...