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Hill is part of a vast black rooting section. He was born in 1947, the year that Jackie Robinson was accepted by the old Brooklyn Dodgers, thereby becoming the first black man to break the color barrier in modern professional sports. In the years since, black kids everywhere have grown up admiring an ever-growing roster of black stars. Indeed, with the possible exception of show business, no other field today is as fully integrated as sports. But while the sport establishment likes to congratulate itself on the increasing numbers of blacks in its ranks, black athletes react with...
...improve the lot of these same departments. I think probably that they are fairly typical of Cambridge policemen, but I am hesitant to enlarge this generalization to police in cities like Chicago where the term "pig" first came into use. This duality poses a difficult problem: there is a barrier between police and young people that has to be dissolved, and soon. But if there was one thing that I learned from Powers and Cochran, it was that police at least deserve the benefit of the doubt...
Although expectations of an end to the 15-month-old bear market have proved false before, many brokers now feel that a psychological barrier has been passed. "We're getting our shopping list ready," says Norton Reamer, vice president of Putnam Management Co., which runs eight mutual funds with $1.8 billion assets. "We're looking specifically for depressed stocks that would benefit from improved consumer spending, which we expect later this year." Kenneth Ward of Hayden, Stone, echoing a common sentiment among analysts, says: "It is bound to take time, but the market is beginning to look around...
...away, uninterested in building a structured sequence from purely expository material. The staged part of the confrontation differs radically, with focus shifts and architectural space creating distances (parallel layers. schematically) between conflicting groups of people: Mark-watches-militants-watching-police-watching-building. With emphasis on buildings-their function as barrier and blind as well as their pure form-the slaying of the student becomes a certainty-before-the-fact, given the specific illustration of each faction's partial blindness. Degree of sight proportionately indicates degrees of danger in Antonioni's films. Once the tear gas bomb fills the frame with...
...result is a spending program of $200.8 billion, an increase of just $3 billion over projected expenditures for this year. Taking inflation into account, Nixon is really advocating a reduction in federal purchasing power. Even so, the budget projects a surplus of only $1.3 billion, a precariously fragile barrier against an inflationary deficit...