Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinary press junket. The 15 newsmen paid their own way on a chartered Boeing 737, and each day for a week they visited a different big-city black ghetto, from Cleveland to Watts. Organized by Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League, the tour included Washington Post Editorial Writer Ben Gilbert, Columnists William F. Buckley Jr. and Joseph Kraft, Newsweek Editor Osborne Elliott, John Herbers of the New York Times, and TIME Washington Correspondent Jess Cook. Cook's report...
More frequently, the tourists were greeted with suspicion, hostility and a feeling of frustration with the national and local press. Leading the travelers into a Watts toy factory, Robert Hall, co-founder of Operation Bootstrap, announced: "I've brought some big newsmen along so they can write some more about what's not going on." One Watts resident was not having any: "We're tired of being treated as news fodder," she said. "Why are you here?" Atlantic's Michael Curtis answered: "Don't you think there is some value in finding out what...
...start, none of the Eskimo dialects have a precise translation of the words guilty and innocent. Judge comes out as "one who listens" or, more simply, "boss." In the unusual cases when there is also a six-man jury, the arrangement is described by Eskimo interpreters as "a big boss and six small bosses...
Paris. Lucas Carton, 9, Place de la Madeleine. Solicitous waiters in white tie and tails, warm and intimate décor, big luminous wall mirrors. Specialties include big Belon oysters, cassolette de queues d'écrevisses, pressed duck Rouennaise. Wine list goes on forever. Dinner for two runs about...
...brassy sound of the studio band cuts off, the lights go down, a spotlight flicks on, picks up the broad back of a big man wearing a black frock coat, striped pants, patent-leather boots and a six-string guitar. The figure swivels around and drawls, "Hello-I'm Johnny Cash." At that, the 3,006 people who have been smothering their enthusiasm back in the cavernous depths of the Grand Old Opry House break loose like a thunderstorm on a hot July day. For like the man said-it's Johnny Cash...