Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does a student have the right to remain seated while classmates stand to pledge allegiance to the flag? A New York federal judge resolved that rather special question in favor of two seventh grade girls in Queens, New York City. The pupils did not wish to join in the pledge, and had been suspended for refusing to obey their teacher's orders to leave the room. The New York school board was understandably concerned about the need to "prevent disorders that may develop as the reaction of infuriated members of the majority," observed Judge Orrin G. Judd...
...said that he could hear the local army units at bayonet practice. "There is constant talk of defense and you see preparations for war everywhere. My interpreters really believed that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are conspiring to invade China." Once he asked, "Are you really expecting the Seventh Fleet to come sailing up the Pearl River?" Recalled Baldwin: "They didn't think that was funny...
Harvard's Jaime Gonzales began the season at number nine but has now advanced through challenge rounds to the seventh spot. He defended that ranking against Army by downing Steve Garret...
...teen-age mother, he never saw his father. His prostitute parent was often in jail, and young Manson was shifted around from relatives to foster parents to reformatories. As he grew up, he turned to petty crimes, mainly car theft. His education never went beyond the seventh grade. It was during these years that he apparently developed his hatred of the affluent and a loathing for women. In and out of prison, Manson became interested in music and the occult, and when he was last released in 1967, he headed for San Francisco as a "roving minstrel...
Dartmouth's win in last season's finale pushed the Big Green to a sixth-place finish, 4-?. in the Ivy League race, and the Crimson into seventh. 3-11, Harrison and his team hope to avenge that loss, and a Harvard win will augur well for a successful Ivy League season...