Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seated in front of him in a Capitol Hill hearing room last week, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold D. Cooley of North Carolina said that the committee "has never had so many distinguished witnesses before it at any one time." Seated shoulder to shoulder at the witness table were seven U.S. state Governors, all Democrats, gathered in Washington to protest the plight of farmers under the impact of a price decline that shrank agricultural income by 16% last year...
...civil rights and party regularity. Soon, he will announce the appointment of Eleanor Roosevelt as.chairman of a new group to draft some stiff civil rights platform proposals. The chances are "very strong" that he will send forth "task forces" of lawyers to investigate and recommend reprisals against the seven skittish Southern states which have indicated they may revolt rather than swallow a too-bitter civil rights pill...
...nice of them to serve us." San Antonio (pop. 575,000) had responded to appeals from its Negro population (9%) for lunch-counter equality after several meetings of white and Negro clergymen, businessmen and store managers. Opened to Negroes without incident were lunch counters in seven variety and 23 drugstores. Also, six Negro students from Fisk University were served at Nashville's Greyhound bus terminal restaurant where, only two weeks before, 56 students had been arrested for refusing to leave while police searched for a reported bomb...
Died. Roy Chapman Andrews, 76, dashing explorer, naturalist, author (Meet Your Ancestors), who sailed the seven seas in search of whales, led a series of expeditions (from 1916 to 1932) into uncharted areas of Asia, came back from the Gobi Desert with 70 million-year-old dinosaur eggs and fossils from the world's biggest land mammal (the baluchitherium), became director of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif...
Martin's concern was shared by many as the market fell lower. But at midweek, having fallen steadily for seven days to dip below 600 on the Dow-Jones industrial index for the first time in more than a year, the market staged a short-lived rally. It recovered a gain at week's end to close at 605.83, off just 3.96 for the week...