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That morning ACT agreed to cancel its proposed stall-in at Atlantic City if the MFDP continues its sit-in. It is uncertain how much ACT's announcement influenced Moses' decision to return to the convention floor...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Politics of Civil Rights: | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

Moore is proud of being "ruthless" when it comes to protecting his dominion. He once got a local CORE group to cancel a demonstration by threatening to send a gang of girls through a CORE picket line. "You won't look very good fighting girls," he warned. And when a Harlem envoy came to Philadelphia to organize a rent strike, Moore gave the man 24 hours to get out of town. The man got. It was Moore who instituted the court battle to stop the city's famed New Year's Day Mummers Parade participants from wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennsylvania: The Goddam Boss | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...advertising manager for Yachting Magazine and long known as one of the East Coast's hottest sailors. All of a sudden the crew seemed to come together, and the big white boat started to move. Constellation had a 100-yd. lead on Eagle before fog rolled in to cancel the race. Bavier was back at the helm when the sloops met again in the New York Yacht Club cruise races, which do not count toward cup selection but can have considerable effect on crew morale. In six races Constellation sailed home ahead four times-and now Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing: Plucking at the Eagle | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...company. The Arabs offer reinstatement to firms that stop their dealings with Israel, but the Israelis have their own ways of exerting pressure. West Germany's Grundig Radio last month announced plans to pull its operations out of Israel, quickly reneged when Israel said that it would cancel all Grundig import licenses in reprisal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: That Arab Boycott | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...ended by divorce until Lina had already borne Angel five children. Then, finally, Angel married her, despite his loud-spoken accusations that Raul had been sired by one of Lina's many other lovers. Neighbors remember that this gnawing suspicion later brought Angel to file, then cancel, a divorce suit. In the midst of such braying accusations and inconstancy, Fidel soon grew indifferent to the family-all except his worshipful brother Raul. Nevertheless, when Fidel and Raul went into the Sierra Maestra, most of the family rallied to their cause, sending food and supplies, raising money, going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Bitter Family | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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