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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp. In Santa Cruz, Calif., Roger La Jeunes and Harvey Stovall were arrested after they put up 36 signs along the beach: "Please do not feed the sharks...
...Jones Beach, L.I., Marine Theater: Song of Norway, Edvard Grieg's music; the park commission's fireworks...
Hall for Republicanism upon moving the family outside the biggest city's limits to Long Island's Long Beach (pop. 31,800). Carlino promptly demanded "a greater realization of the problems of the metropolitan area," received a vigorous, Latin-style abrazo from Rockefeller, who thus seemed to embrace the oft-neglected voting power of the ever-growing suburbs...
Indonesia has recently prohibited a contest to choose a Miss Indonesia for the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif., after a leftist newspaper complained that she would be "manhandled and ogled at." In Bandung, Western movies are banned because they tend to show "racial discrimination" and provoke "adventurous sentiments." Hula-Hoops, about to catch on belatedly, were banned as sexually provocative...
Bermuda businessmen, long reluctant to jeopardize revenue from discrimination-prone U.S. tourists, last week let down most of the island's social color bars. Top hotels-Belmont Manor. Castle Harbour, Princess, Elbow Beach. Inverurie, St. George-announced their intention "to accept reservations for dining, dancing and entertainment from local residents without discrimination," and to allow visiting (but not resident) Negroes in rooms. Most smaller hotels, nightclubs and restaurants followed suit; movie theaters abandoned segregated seating. Bermuda's 28,000 Negroes (in a population of 45,000) won their new gains through a boycott of movie houses. White Bermudians...