Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ossie Davis, the actor. Horace Mann Bond. an intimate friend of DuBois and chairman of the sociology department at Atlanta University, and his son. Georgia legislator Julian Bond, addressed an informally-dressed gathering of 800 at the sunswept DuBois homesite...
...Julian Bond said in the keynote speech that DuBois had pointed out the major problem of the twentieth century over half a century ago. "DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk said that the major problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line-the failure of the white world minority to share its wealth and produce with the nonwhite world majority. That problem is still with us today," Bond said...
...Bond went on to say that DuBois' joining the Communist Party was "more an expression of disgust at American social practices than of attraction for communist ideology. We live in a country whose economic philosophy is socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor; a country which annually gives farmers thousands of dollars for not producing crops, yet which will not give a family on welfare enough to live decently." Bond said...
Everybody loves a spy-unless, of course, he happens to be real. Then nobody likes him or his dirty work, and fewer still want to tell about it. Partly as a result, James Bond is a household word while practically nobody knows the names and numbers of the actual players in the cold underworld of international espionage. A journalist-author named Andrew Tully airs this situation in a provocative and detailed new book that claims to reveal a dark cloakful of hitherto secret tales of derring...
Casey was freed on $1,000 bond...