Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black civil rights leader James Meredith said yesterday in Boston that he suspected "very suspicious games are being played by the politicians trying to solve the school desegregation problem in Boston...
...Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, said there had been no city or state action to implement Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity's order for school integration...
...Boston school committee and the city and state governments are attempting to do now what George Wallace tried to do without success," Meredith said. He spoke at a press conference for the National Student Conference Against Racism. Meredith will speak at the conference this weekend...
Died. Bob Montana, 54, cartoonist-creator of the comic strip Archie; of an apparent heart attack while cross-country skiing; near Meredith, N.H. Montana sketched Archie for more than three decades, peopling the strip in part with characters drawn from his New England high school acquaintances...
...great cause of Astroturf dubbed this particular period of sports as the Overlap season. Nowhere does this sports epithet come in more handy than at one of those tailend games when the voice of Phil Rizzutto, By Saam or Jack Brickhouse mysteriously fades into the voice of Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, or Pat Summerall. It's that period when opening football games and even pre-season shinny matches crowd out the boxscores or relegate the baseball standings in losing towns' newspapers to the last page of the sports sections...