Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They do indeed decline if most of the whites in a neighborhood stampede to another area as soon as Negroes begin moving in. The chief profiteer from this process is the "panic peddler" or "blockbuster"-the real estate agent who buys cheap from frightened whites, sells dear to Negroes who cannot buy anywhere else. (Last week's bill specifically prohibited blockbusting by making it unlawful for real estate agents to coax homeowners into selling by alarming them with stories of a Negro influx.) Wherever white residents resist the impulse to get out and cooperate in integrating a Negro family...
...aren't much help otherwise, except as evidence that when Sammy plays a good gig, his pals can be sure of work. Even Frank Sinatra Jr. sits in, tussling with a sappy role as Davis' sidekick, and Peter Lawford is improbably cast as "Manny," the hardhearted booking agent...
...heavy drinking and bad temper. Seldom is there any doubt that what makes Adam run is Sammy. Carpentered into the story line are all the predictable solo turns-a crying jag, a tender love episode, a scene in which he wields a broken bottle to make his agent grovel, and a reprise in which Davis crawls across a restaurant floor to shine Lawford's shoes. There is a semifinal glimpse of the doomed genius staggering through city streets, climaxed by a moment of bitter glory when he blows his heart through a horn and dies. His ailment is never...
Soon, the two candidates decided to cool their connections. Ellington found that the conservatives to whom he was appealing for support cared very little about Lyndon Johnson-or any other Democrat, for that matter. Hooker found himself under attack as an agent of "outside forces" trying to intervene in Tennessee politics. Instead of being a surrogate Johnson-Kennedy contest, the race turned into an out-and-out battle between Newcomer Hooker and the powerful Tennessee political machine controlled by Ellington and present Governor Frank Clement, who was running for the Senate in last week's primary. The organization, which...
...News on Herald presses, sell its ads and distribute it. The only separate operation will be the two papers' editorial staffs. At first glance, the News may seem to be merely a Herald subsidiary. Not quite. While receiving a management fee as the News's business "agent," the Herald will turn over all News revenues to Cox, who retains ownership. Editorially, the News remains a wholly independent paper...