Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Technicians huddled around their electric timers. "Here he comes!" somebody shouted. A strange object that looked like a wingless jet airplane flashed into sight, roared past and disappeared, leaving waves of refracted light dancing in the brilliant desert dawn. Strapped in his cramped cockpit, Craig Breedlove, 26, pressed a button that released two colored parachutes, and the Spirit of America skidded to a halt. "All I know," he said, "is that I was moving fast." The timers told how fast: in two runs through Bonneville's measured mile, Breedlove had averaged 407.45 m.p.h. - faster than any man had ever...
Many people who are sympathetic toward the Negro civil rights drive are, for various reasons, reluctant to go to jail, sit in front of bulldozers, brandish placards, or even wear obtrusive lapel buttons. A gathering of such fastidious people met last June in the town house of Mrs. Louis S. Gimbel Jr., a New York social and philanthropic leader. Among the guests: Showman Billy Rose, Singer Lena Home, Broadway Producer Leonard Sillman. The purpose of the gathering was to talk about what celebrities could do to help the civil rights movement. All agreed that there was a need for some...
...Gimbel, at her own expense, ordered 5,000 buttons from a manufacturer, stirred interest among New Frontiersmen at a Washington luncheon a month ago by wearing several of the buttons on her white gloves, thus avoiding pinholes in her dress. President Kennedy and members of his Cabinet asked for buttons. Suddenly, the buttons are popping out all over. Algernon D. Black, chairman of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, has ordered 4,000. The Council for United Civil Rights Leadership, which coordinates seven major civil rights groups, has adopted the button as its symbol. The council has ordered...
...total of almost $50,000 will be solicited in the next month in door-to-door campaigns and a button-selling drive. Students will be utilized in this effort and also to man the headquarters set-up in the ground floor of the building housing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...service copy, a reporter's typescript, carefully catalogued material from the morgue. Wielding a tiny electronic stylus instead of a pencil, he changes words, makes erasures, shifts paragraphs. Every move, every judgment is recorded in the console's electronic memory. The job done, the editor presses a button and the corrected copy jumps into view, set and spaced just as it will appear in print. Photographs are chosen in the same manner, headlines are composed, whole pages made up. Finally, the last switch is thrown, the proper signal is sent, and the presses roll...