Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that local segregation ordinances are one after another being declared illegal by the courts, adopted a sweeping law that abolishes "all ordinances which require the separation of persons because of race, color or creed." Among those repealed were measures that had made it illegal for bars to serve beer or wine to whites and Negroes in the same room, Negro barbers to cut the hair of white women, amateur baseball teams of different races to play within two blocks of one another, and Negroes to visit any "whites only" park except the local...
...understand that the Man of the Year must have been influential for good or evil. In the latter category I nominate the inventor of the pop-top beer...
...supplant "fight, fight, fight" on U.S. campuses. From Anchors Aweigh to All Hail Alaska, the college song is still uniquely American. Britons save their tears for school songs like Harrow's Forty Years On. Oxbridge has s no official songs whatever. Germans I and Frenchmen sing of beer and wine...
...more flamboyant episodes in the history of televised courtroom drama in Texas. When one Harry Washburn was tried and convicted in Waco for blowing up his ex-mother-in-law, one of his defense attorneys claimed that some witnesses were influenced by the testimony they soaked up from a beer-parlor TV set before being called themselves. When David Frank McKnight was tried and convicted in Amarillo for killing a crippled pawnbroker with a claw hammer, the judge permitted live coverage after the defendant signed a statement saying he had no objection; later it was learned that a local station...
...into airplanes or pots and pans, but its new uses are many. Production of aluminum cans will double this year to 160 million Ibs., and President John D. Harper of Alcoa, the giant of the industry, figures that next year the metal will be used in 75% of all beer cans. Alcoa is also perfecting a process in which seamless aluminum cans can be formed in a single operation from one small disc of metal, and is working toward a kitchen triumph: the first easy-to-open sardine...