Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...include a score of New York City public school teachers, eight of them Negro, financed in part by the American Federation of Teachers; 16 Queens College students, all but one white, who practiced tutoring all winter and raised $7,200 to pay their way; and such irregulars as a Brooklyn private school teacher who quit his Virginia vacation when he read of the project in local newspapers...
...shall not be moved." At one construction site in Brooklyn, demonstrators chained themselves together to prevent the police from hauling them away. The cops had to cut the chains with huge shears (used to remove handcuffs when the key is missing) before they could take the demonstrators off to jail. Despite hundreds of arrests, Negro leaders vowed that the demonstrations would...
...Problem. Sanford Koufax is a lawyer's son who stumbled into baseball by chance. At Brooklyn's Lafayette High School basketball was his game; he won a scholarship to the cage-crazy University of Cincinnati, turned out for baseball just to liven up a dull freshman spring. "I have one problem," Sandy told the coach. "I can't hit." "Well," said the coach, "maybe you can pitch." In his first two games, Koufax struck out 34 batters, and big-league scouts began pounding on his dormitory door. The Dodgers got there first, with a contract that called...
...rack (for as little as $2.50 a dress) with a minimum of frills. Conservatism has helped them in Europe but not in two previous attempts to enter the U.S. One C. & A. store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue failed in the 1950s, and a second store in Brooklyn is hardly a moneymaker. With Ohrbach's, the Brenninkmeyers hope to acquire the retailing flair of a U.S. company that has made a name for itself by imaginative advertising and artful merchandising of low-budget high-style Paris copies. Eventually, the Brenninkmeyers hope to expand across...
...Burst of Laughter. In the Administration's wording, Title II would apply only to accommodations involved to a "substantial" degree in interstate commerce. That puzzled even Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a civil-righteous sort if ever there was one. Asked Celler, after Bobby had finished reading his prepared statement: "What is 'substantial'?" Bobby's answer touched off a burst of laughter in the crowded hearing room. Replied he: "More than minimal...