Word: cooperation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...park. There, behind the screaming sirens of the escorting police motorcycles, came four Lincoln Continentals, a white Cadillac, a marching band and an ROTC drill team. The town, almost equally divided between blue collar whites and impoverished blacks, was parading to inaugurate its new and unlikely mayor: Algernon ("Jay") Cooper Jr., 28, a smooth and sophisticated Northern-educated black...
Morale. The election of Cooper, an Alabama-born graduate of Notre Dame and New York University's School of Law, seemed to signal a new era of interracial cooperation in a community in which only one black had held an appointive position in the municipal government. One of Cooper's first postelection acts, in fact, was to visit the disabled Wallace and invite him to speak again in Prichard at any time. Preaching conciliation rather than proclaiming black power, Cooper had unseated the lackadaisical twelve-year incumbent mayor, Vernon Capps, 62, by applying some of the organizational expertise...
...given a tust inning run when Juan Bentquez and Phil Gagliano walked and Ben Ogilvie singled. The Tigers tied at in the bottom of the inning, but Boston went ahead to stay in the second on Rock Millers double and singles by Vie Cornell Bentquez and Cicil Cooper...
...conferences a week and sees scores of visitors every day, groaning all the while that the Japanese "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible." Other Premiers have been stiff and unapproachable; Tanaka rattles on to all comers about his favorite movie stars (Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr), his golf game (he has an 18 handicap), or his impatient manner ("I think like an American"). When a newsman asked the Premier what he had prayed for at a shrine near Nagoya that he and several of his Cabinet Ministers had visited one stifling day after...
Typical of the Institute is the Institute Advisory Committee which meets once or twice a year to see what is going on. The Committee consists of such luminaries as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass), Jacqueline Onassis, Averill Harriman (D-N.Y.), Sen. John Cooper (R-Ken.), Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), Lord Harlech, Vernon Jordon of the Urban League. The Advisory Committee has little to do with the operations of the Institute and rarely criticizes its activities. The rationale for its existence seems obscure, but as May explained, "They're awise people...