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...that is insufficient, Americans can point to new arrivals who retain the same dream of their forebears. The new immigration codes may have changed the complexion of the immigrants: Mexico and the Philippines are now the No. 1 and 2 countries sending citizens to America; Scandinavia is not even among the top 25. But the tales remain the same: juntas and taxes, poverty and oppression left behind...
...Here Bond delineates his plan for collating technical assistance for blacks seeking elective office. The idea is a sound and useful one and could go far toward alleviating the disadvantages of the experiential vacuum in which black candidates and office-holders must operate. NAPPI could give a wholesome new complexion to the black body politic...
WITH fluffy brown hair, bright blue eyes and a complexion as clear as a baby's, Paul Coats looks much younger than his 23 years. As he lies on the bed in his sunny corner room at Manhattan's VA Hospital, he appears healthy enough. But Coats carries a wound that has not healed in 41 years and is taxing the ingenuity of some of the nation's most expert neurosurgeons...
...casually and contemptuously awful. Such movies are not even made with the same care or craft as the 90-minute features cranked out for television. They portray all black men as diddy-boppers or street-corner hustlers, all white men as drooling, craven criminals, and women of any complexion as whimpering sex machines. They lack the energy and dignity of good action melodrama. Super Fly and movies like it demean the audiences they are made...
...Crimson have had little trouble disposing of the Big Green in recent years, trouncing them even with a contingent of Harvard runners competing at the Penn Relays. But a Harvard runaway seems more remote this spring, and the complexion of the meet has been changed radically by the Harvard injury situation...