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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Episcopal Minister Malcolm Boyd of Washington, D.C., observes: "It's a whole new dimension to some people. A girl who knows a white man can get to know him very well-and it gets boring. She finds the prospect of a Negro man exciting." There is no denying that for many girls, interracial dating is a very stimulating prospect. "I just think brown skin looks healthier," insists one California student. "Negro boys are carried away with pretty white faces and long flashy hair," snaps an admittedly jealous black high school girl in Washington, D.C. On some campuses with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Black & White Dating | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...being as rewarding as the first. In this mood, automakers are unloading heavy summer inventories on their dealers-some 2,920,000 cars against 2,270,000 last year. Nor do most automakers expect a setback when the 10% surtax nips at buyers' paychecks. Says Chrysler President Virgil Boyd: "The public has been oriented to the inevitability of a tax increase for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Running Ahead at the Half | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

Born. To Muhammad Ali (alias Cassius Clay), 26, ex-heavyweight champ, now appealing his conviction for draft-dodging, and Belinda Boyd Ali, 18: a girl, their first child; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 28, 1968 | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...solution will add costs to the traveler's ticket. Until recently the Federal Government covered 25% of the cost of airport construction. Now the Government wants out. The U.S Secretary of Transportation, Alan S. Boyd, recently proposed that, except for special cases, airports and airlines do all heir own financing, cover the cost of revenue bonds by means of higher ticket taxes and new taxes on fuel and cargo. Meanwhile, with expansions necessary and costly new construction planned, airports are already increasing landing fees and other charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AIRPORTS: The Crowded Ground | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

Harder to take was Robert Whitman's black-draped funeral fun house, hung with violently vibrating Mylar mirrors. A screaming oscillator sadistically shivered the viewers' eardrums as it shattered their reflections on the mirrors. Equally diabolical was Boyd Mefferd's mini-discotheque, where strobe lights flashed up through colored plastic panels in the floor with such seeming moderation that many of the younger spectators felt an irresistible urge to sit or lie down in order to get closer to the beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Transistorized Tunnel of Light | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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