Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defiance campaign designed to oust the floundering Red government of Kerala (pop. 13.5 million), India's only Communist-ruled state. Shops and factories closed and the docks of Cochin port were idle. In the streets of Trivandrum, Kerala's capital, a 1½-mile-long procession waved black banners and chanted, "Red rule is killer's rule...
...Dancing has a tendency to invigorate the spirit and promote health," said the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith of Palmyra, N.Y. Last week at Salt Lake City's University of Utah Stadium, 8,000 young Mormons in blue skirts and white blouses. Spanish costumes, tangerine and black jumpers or pastel formals romped and whirled through a two-night program of waltzes, fox trots, folk dances, tangos, rumbas and square and round dances and even some "toned-down" jitterbug steps...
...Trouble struck swiftly as the field pounded through the final turn in the gist running of the Belmont Stakes, third jewel in horse racing's Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Black Hills slipped on the muddy track, went down with Jockey Eddie Arcaro and rolled on him. Lake Erie, following close behind, stumbled over the tangle. Lake Erie's Jockey Wally Blum was unhurt, but Arcaro was hospitalized with a concussion and sprains. Black Hills, a foreleg fractured, was destroyed. The pile-up had no effect on the favorite, Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dancer. Runner...
Hired part time, Bach crammed a tiny photo lab into the auditorium dressing room. Soon "Bach's Boys" were rushing about, shoving big black boxes in students' faces and yelling, "Hold it!" Other teachers were shocked at Bach's brand of pedagogy: he encouraged playing hooky on sunny days-with a camera. "Go get the picture," he would say. Bach badgered officials into buying extra film, gave his budding photographers more than most daily newspapers allow their regulars. He ceaselessly sent his boys to football and basketball games to get realistic pictures (blur was just fine...
Examples of action-expressionism line his basement studio-bedroom-large black canvases slashed with color laid on with a paint roller, brush and palette knife. Requiem for Bird, named for the late Jazz Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, looks like a grey goose hit hard in flight by a charge from a chokebore shotgun. "When I run out of materials, I borrow and steal shamelessly," says Morris. "After I painted some canvases on the Jack Paar Show, I sold one to a dealer in Chicago. Then I was on CBS and NBC newsreels. I got other customers. They came, but they...