Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hamilton, Flatbush, Bensonhurst, Canarsie and Coney Island. They're foreign. Brooklyn is Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Red Hook-places like that, where you can't get foot-long hot dogs or Marianne Moore, but where you can hear Latin-American music blasting all night, where Al Capone is a martyr, where you can buy licorice for a penny, where you can get the best malted milks in the world. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Professor Barrow. Not true. As long as there's a Brooklyn, there...
While federal and state mediators worked feverishly to end the strike, only one Boston paper-the nationally distributed, nonunionized Christian Science Monitor-continued to publish. To fill the news gap, the Harvard Crimson put out an extra four-page edition called the Boston Crimson. Cartoonist Al Capp read his own comic strip Li'l Abner over television for what he called the "culturally depraved people of Boston." Out-of-work newsmen appeared nightly on television, where they did not distinguish themselves. Reading the news in unmodulated voices with pained expressions on their faces, they stumbled over words while nervously...
...annual salary of $8,100 ought to sound reasonably attractive to a young fellow fresh out of college. But not to University of California Senior Al Hartman, 22, who graduates in June with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and has already been offered an $8,100 job by General Electric, which also promised to pay his tuition toward a master's degree. Hartman in tends to turn G.E. down, figuring that he can get as much as $9,000 from some other company - hopefully, one doing defense work that can promise a "critical capabilities" draft deferment...
Just as bullish about his prospects is Rod D. Grimm, 25, a Berkeley graduate student in marketing who has al ready served two years in Viet Nam with the Green Berets. Grimm, who receives his master of business administration degree this summer, has been interviewed by 15 companies. He has gotten eight "seconds"-invitations to inspect company facilities and talk seriously about work and salary-and expects several more before he is finally forced to make a choice...
...N.Y.U.'s Al Davis, Howie Harmatz and Mike Gaylor won an unprecedented 29 of 30 bouts to place first in the team foil competition. Edging Columbia by one point, N.Y.U. also captured the team sabre crown with 23 victories Navy was first in epee, winning 21 bouts...