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...greater variety of skills (Meany is a plumber). If blacks pass the rigid written tests needed to enter the apprenticeship program, they often fail the commonly rigged oral exams. One egregious case is that of Anderson L. Dobbins, a black who tried for four years to get into a Cincinnati electricians' local. Finally, he was admitted-but only after a federal judge found him better qualified than most of the union's white members. Letting the unions determine just who can or cannot become an apprentice is, in the words of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Hill, "like letting...
...Harvard swimmer, freshman Henry Watson, will compete in the AAU Championships in April at Cincinnati. Watson, who swims distance freestyles, is now in Florida working out and getting extra rest. "Henry's doctor says he needs about 12 hours of sleep a night to swim well," Cahalan said...
...Cincinnati, challenged by a reporter on the usefulness of volunteerism in solving the problems of poverty, she replied: "Government is impersonal, and to really get our problems solved we have to have people too. We need the personal touch...
Dream of Hardware. His love of objects, Dine figures, goes back to his boyhood in Cincinnati, where he worked after school in his father's hardware store. "I was completely bored by the selling," he recalls, "but in my boredom I found that daydreaming amongst objects of affection was very nice. Commercial paint-color charts were real jewel lists for me." After majoring in painting at Ohio University in Athens, he set off for New York in 1959. Happenings were what was happening, and Dine was soon in the thick of them. "Happenings were good because they...
Perhaps even more than priests, nuns often retain a warm affection for the communal life of religion they have left. Corita says of her former community: "So many super people gathered under one roof. It was a rich experience." In 1967, the mother superior of the Glenmary Sisters of Cincinnati led 44 of her nuns out of the small, rural-oriented order. The situation was a prototype of the Immaculate Heart dispute: a progressive faced the opposition of an archbishop (Karl Alter of Cincinnati, now retired) who felt that things were moving too fast. The Glenmarys' mother superior, now Miss...