Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latent function of concealing the extent to which discrimination continues. One of the early civil-rights activities of the Kennedy administration was to try to reverse this trend so that at least the government could be informed about the extent to which Negroes were disadvantaged. Having this "color blind" point of view built into their ideology, it was relatively easy for welfare personnel to find Moynihan's intransigent emphasis on color reactionary rather than radical...
...next three years, our air will certainly become more and more polluted, even with everyone stressing the importance of cleaning it up. How can we be so blind as to let a future project pollute our air at the startling rate of two 100-car trains of coal...
...blacks, Bustamante organized the widespread riots that won the Caribbean country a large measure of self-rule in the 1940s, led Jamaica to complete independence from Britain five years ago, and since then has served as the country's Prime Minister. Last week Sir Alexander, ailing and half-blind at 83, resigned as head of government and called new national elections for Feb. 21. The politicians of Jamaica's two major parties raced for rostrums. Bustamante's first cousin and archrival, Norman Manley, 73, who leads the People's National Party, denounced the snap election...
...Suffren, based in .the Mediterranean port of Toulon. In their first joint venture as producer and star, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, 37, braved the streets of Greenwich Village for a few location shots for Wait Until Dark, a melo- dramatic mystery that has her playing a blind girl terrorized by a couple of murderous junkies. On hand to lend civic punctilio to the occasion was New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 45, with his wife Mary. And since he'd left the keys to the city back at the office, His Honor gave Audrey...
There is a clearly defined hierarchy at Princeton, and everyone knows about it. Especially blind dates from Vassar. There are also rigid stereotypes, and for the most part they hold. Ivy men are the aristocracy. Tiger and Cannon men are jocks (Tiger is for gentleman-jocks). Cottage men are campus leader types. And so on for all fifteen...