Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early as November, Gartner said, CORE had complained that of the 500 persons employed by the restaurant chain, "considerably less than 20 were Negroes...
Allen Gartner, head of the Boston chapter of CORE, admitted Sunday that there is no concrete evidence of actual discrimination by the Hayes-Bickford Cafeterias, and said the July 10 demonstration outside the Cambridge Bick was not meant to imply that there...
...said, however, that the demonstration was prompted by "had faith" on the part of the Bick management in negotiations with CORE officials...
...good man is hard to find, and intolerable to men and gods once he is found. The age of the anti-hero tends to overlook this fascinating half-truth, which is the durable paradox at the core of Oedipus Rex and Othello. But Ken Kesey used it well in his short, cruelly focused first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy, laughing con man and indestructible alley fighter, cons his way into an insane asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward...
...CORE does not at present plan any further demonstrations against the Bick. CORE had been negotiating with the Bick since last October over their Negro hiring policy, and these negotiations were resumed the day after the picketing and arrests took place...