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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spindly Siren. Today, of course, Diahann is the star of her own highly successful TV series, Julia. Black faces abound in ads and TV commercials; TV advertisers seem to have made it a rule of thumb that if three models in an ad are white, the fourth must be black. The breakthrough in fashion modeling has been more remarkable and, at the same time, less dutiful. Three years ago, a spindly siren from Detroit named Donyale Luna stalked onto the fashion scene and became an overnight success: In one whirlwind year she posed for Harper's Bazaar, Paris Match...
...Carmen Bradshaw, who accentuates her dark beauty with even darker makeup, is one of the girls who split in two in the RCA television commercial. Anne Fowler has been modeling for eight months, but already has appeared in Good Housekeeping, McCall's, Vogue and Redbook, in a magazine ad for RevIon and two TV commercials...
...Yahne Sangare, who comes by it naturally: she is the daughter of the Liberian ambassador to Paris. By any modeling standards, Haitian-born Jany Tomba was an instant success; she started work only last January, has since posed for Simplicity Patterns, the J. C. Penney catalogue and a Seventeen ad...
...ways out of public schools systems are not as quixotic as they seem. Recent years have seen the start of hundreds of community tutoring programs--most financed and run by community members in local storefronts. Even more intriguing has been the quiet rise of independent ghetto schools--not ad hoc, extra-school programs, but functioning substitutes for ghetto public schools. With their attacks on the school system stalemated, blacks seem to be turning back on their own resources with a new determination. Their infant efforts may not prove educational miracles--it is still too early to tell how well they...
...past 14 years chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications. Like many other Americans, Pastore is troubled by what he takes to be egregious sex, "blatant cruelty and obscene sadism" on the tube. Among other things, he has criticized suggestive commercials (Noxzema's "Take It All Off" ad) and overly permissive programs (ABC's short-lived Turn On). After five days of Senate hearings, Pastore renewed a standing appeal for rigid, centralized self-censorship. But this time he told the broadcasters...