Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struggle that has been building between moderate and radical elements in the U.S. civil rights movement last week broke bitterly into the open. Standing at a crossroads where one signpost beckons with the ringing and controversial slogan "Black power!" (TIME, July 1), the movement dramatically aired its deep division in national meetings of its two biggest organizations. In Los Angeles, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the largest, the oldest and the strongest civil rights group, met to renew its dedication to moderation and responsibility. In Baltimore gathered the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the biggest among...
Without a Sou. At the time of the adventure, Malraux was a 22-year-old cubist poet. He and Clara were very broke, following a highly unartistic attempt to make a killing on the Bourse. Intrigued by archaeology, especially by a little-known Cambodian temple called Bantéay Srei on the way to Angkor Vat, Malraux got permission from the French colonial administration to explore. Off they went first-class-without a sou for the return trip. When they finally found Banteay Srei, says Clara, "It was a kind of Trianon in the jungle...
...Bushed & Broke." Bell, who will become vice president in charge of international programs for the Ford Foundation, confessed that his long-running performance had left him "bushed and broke." AID, by contrast, is in surprisingly good shape. In the face of persistent Congressional assaults on the program, Bell, a Harvard-trained economist who was summoned to Washington in 1961 as President Kennedy's first budget director, helped trim the fat by rejecting the notion of aid as "a worldwide welfare program" and insisting on "self-help...
...three children, one of whom is a Purple Heart veteran of Viet Nam. Robinson drives a greenish-grey Lincoln: he rejects Cadillacs as "too ostentatious." He has a net worth of at least $200,000. And his career clearly means more than affluence to the man who, in 1947, broke baseball's color bar. "After the marches and the demonstrations," says he, "the next frontier for the Negro is the ballot box-and business...
Born. To Peter Snell, 27, New Zealand track champ, who in 1962 broke three world records in eight days; and Sally Turner Snell, 24: their first child, a girl; in Auckland, New Zealand...