Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tiny Daniels, Md. (pop. 381), is one of the last examples of that almost vanished bit of Americana, the company town, which once ranged from Western mine and lumber settlements to Southern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels, nestled in a wooded hollow along a back road eleven miles west of Baltimore, has managed to survive. Its company store, company houses, company-dominated churches and company mill-its raison d'être-all remained intact in the age of the megalopolis...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson once called her "the best man in the Cabinet." That did not bother Barbara Castle. Being petite and auburn-tressed, she resembles a man-or some men-only in her determination to get a job done well. A left-wing Laborite from the cotton-milling town of Blackburn in Lancashire and the only woman in Wilson's Cabinet, Mrs. Castle, 56, has just been handed a job that would test the mettle of any male. After seven weeks as Wilson's new Minister of Employment and Productivity (she was formerly Minister of Transport...
...weigh the extensive-perhaps explosive -demands of the black poor. Last week, stepping out from shantytowns and slums throughout the nation, more than 1,200 marchers of the Poor People's Campaign began the trek toward Washington. Some were weathered field hands who had never before left the cotton-blown bottoms; others were rambunctious teen-agers splitting from a desperate scene. "The cause this march represents is alarmingly real," wrote Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson. "Before any white man passes judgment on it, he ought to understand what he is judging...
...adjacent galleries (XIV and XV), a display of Fogg graphics and paintings by contemporaries of Degas is available for comparison and teaching purposes. (In particular, note two Degas paintings: an oil sketch, "Cotton Merchants," and a finished painting, "Mme. Oliver Vilette," which bear out the Degas-Matisse relationship...
...three more on the way. Sound a bit like a Christmas card from Bobby Kennedy? Well, no--it's just another annual business report from the Sack Theatres. Within 15 years, Ben Sack has managed to piece together a chain of eight movie houses which dominate Boston. Not since Cotton Mather has one man managed to dictate so successfully what passes for entertainment in the town...