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...demonstration, dubbed "the March of the Empty Pots," was organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling the spring evening air with the sounds of banging pans, patriotic songs and chants of "Chile, si! Cuba...
...fact, free trade as an official U.S. policy is a relatively new phenomenon. One of the earliest bills considered by the U.S. Congress was a tariff act that was passed on July 4, 1789. In 1828, Congress sharply increased the rates via a law that was labeled by cotton-exporting Southerners and Western farmers a "tariff of abominations." During the post-Civil War era, tariff rates were generally kept high by Republicans. The G.O.P. policy culminated in the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, which set off an international trade war that deepened the world Depression. Only in 1934, when...
...Johnny Shines journeying off with Robert Johnson: Howling Wolf learning to play harp from his brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson and later being discovered by Ike Turner; or the list of musicians who've passed through Muddy Waters' band, which includes Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Earl Hooker, Otis Spann and Buddy Guy. The names and anecdotes go on and on. For example, Chess Records was offered the rights to Elvis Presley, but refused it because "we didn't think of ourselves as a hillbilly label at that time...
...years the military rested comfortably on its largely unfounded reputation as a fastness of racial fair play and equality. Because it beat chopping cotton or pushing brooms, blacks viewed the armed forces as an escape from a hostile world. That, it turns out, was a mistake. Even as civilian society makes slow, painful progress in civil rights, and black radicalism heightens blacks' sense of injustice, it has become increasingly clear that the military too has its full share of racism...
...Nittany Lions, bound for the Cotton Bowl to face either Texas or Arkansas, were a unanimous choice for the award, collecting 80 points in the final voting to 69 for Dartmouth, last year's winner...