Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black & White...
Those among our fellow citizens of Alabama who get hot under their galluses about the marriage of a white and a black rabbit in a children's fairy tale might profitably turn their attention to the nearest liquor store. The label of a widely sold brand of Scotch whisky shows two little dogs, black and white, and, moreover, the product is described as a "blend...
Excuse my laughter, but will somebody please inform the Alabama public libraries that all of their books have to be placed on the reserved shelf? Don't they know that all their white pages have black print on them...
...long career of public service, Strauss has distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners, in the seats at Griffith Stadium. As written by Bill Bowen and edited by Champ Clark, see the cover story on The Strauss Affair...
This was no isolated phenomenon. "Cargo cults" ("cargo" is pidgin English for trade goods) have been observed repeatedly in the islands of Melanesia (including New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides). All of them share the belief that black men will acquire the white man's magic to materialize goods from overseas without doing a lick of work. British Sociologist Peter M. Worsley writes of the cargo cults in the May issue of the Scientific American, and lists and locates 72 of them...