Word: clouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They can, that is, unless the Negro Revolution follows the classic pattern and devours the very men who did most to set it in motion, replacing them with extremist firebrands. In the wretched Negro slums, the more moderate Negro leaders pack no clout with the young buckoes who toss Molotov cocktails and chant murderous antiwhite slogans. "A black man today," insists one Black Power advocate, "is either a radical or an Uncle Tom." In fact, only a fraction of America's 22 million Negroes falls into either category. What worries the moderates is that increasing numbers of ghetto dwellers...
There is one place in France where Americans still have some clout: Le Mans. For a while, after a trio of U.S. Ford Mark 11s finished one-two-three in last year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, officials talked about changing the rules of the race - to require that cars go 30 laps between fueling stops (the Fords needed gas every 20 laps) and have room inside for four persons (the Mark 11s could barely squeeze in two). They changed their mind when Ford threatened to pull out of this year's race altogether, leaving the field...
Nielsen Quaver. Carson's dominance of nighttime television gave him the clout to beat NBC into a big raise after the recent AFTRA strike. Previously, he was getting about $15,000 for doing five times a week what Dean Martin does once for $40,000, and he was paying his own staff, to boot. Johnny's new contract gives him fuller control of the show. NBC now pays the extras and gave Carson a raise to about $20,000 a week, bringing his annual TV income to more than...
...Positive Clout. Predictably, Johnson's bold blows for justice have triggered an increasing number of collisions with George and now Lurleen Wallace. Johnson's current battle with the Wallaces grows out of a 1963 case in which he ordered twelve Negro students admitted to all-white Tuskegee High School. After the whites switched to a private school, receiving state tuition grants of $185 a year, Governor George Wallace sent 216 state troopers to bar the Negro children from the high school. In the ensuing struggle, Wallace mobilized the Alabama National Guard, President Kennedy federalized it, and Wallace closed...
This March that order was given the most positive clout in Southern school history. Invoking the 14th Amendment, a three-judge court mustered by Johnson ordered Alabama to "take affirmative action to disestablish state-enforced or -encouraged" segregation across the state. Wallace & Co. could no longer pin the rap on individual school boards, said the court. By all evidence, the state itself controls all public schools and most state colleges. As a result, Alabama has the lowest percentage of Negro integration of any state (2.4%). More than 25% of Negro high schools are unaccredited, compared with 3.4% of the white...