Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election" which gave birth to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The election also served as a pilot project for a student movement which was later called the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The publicity which a group of about 50 college volunteers mainly from Yale and Stanford received in their hometown newspapers for their participation in the "mock election" prompted Lowenstein and one or two others to organize the "Freedom Summer" project which sent 600 campus volunteers to Mississippi. Lowenstein and his friends set up the project and raised most of the money...
...would have been ambitious enough just to try for a slice of the bank, but the young partners decided that nothing could be quite so satisfying as complete control. They bettered Atlas' offer by fifty cents a share, organized a public relations campaign that stressed the advantages of hometown ownership. Within three days, after tender offers were counted, Parsons was Detroit's fourth largest banker...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts is the TV premiere of Poet Archibald MacLeish's play, which was written for his hometown's bicentennial celebration last June. It deals with a boy who hates living in Conway and wants to leave town forever. By getting him to examine and evaluate the town's past, MacLeish re-creates the major events of Conway's history...
...Abraham Lincoln-so recently a peace partisan himself-ironically was plagued by peace movements that all but destroyed the militancy of his cause. Northern foes of the war, contemptuously labeled "Copperheads" after the snake that strikes without warning, held a mass meeting in the President's own hometown of Springfield, Ill. They resolved that "a further offensive prosecution of this war tends to subvert the Constitution and the Government." Secret societies were formed on both sides. Southerners who called themselves "Heroes of America" gave clandestine support to the Union; Northerners organized as "Knights of the Golden Circle" recruited troops...
Unfortunately, this was the last hometown cheer. Gibson cruised along serenely, yielding only a double to George Scott and three scattered singles after Santiago's homer. In the ninth, with two gone--including the King on a fly to deep left--Scott drew Gibson's only base on balls. But pinch hitter Mike Andrews skied to the old Yankee Roger Maris for the final...