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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Harlem "leader" made no pretense at all about his aims. He was Jesse Gray, a venomous little demagogue with a long record of Communist associations, who made a name of sorts for himself last year when he instigated a rent strike in Harlem. Gray sent out a call for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: When Night Falls | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

The defeated whites clung to the past when Mississippi had been one of the richest states in the Union and Jefferson Davis the rebel President. They were scared because they felt that they were few and the Negroes myriad; they were stubborn because only by convincing themselves that the Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Curse & The Hope | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

Robin and the 7 Hoods is less ex citing than Little Caesar, less convincing than The Roaring Twenties, and less tuneful than Guys and Dolls. Proceeding on the reckless assumption that an old movie made over is better than no movie at all, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mafia, with Music | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

Any ballboy could tell that American tennis fortunes were certainly looking up. Why, any one of three Yanks had a good shot at Wimbledon last week. First there was the defending champion: chunky Chuck McKinley, 23, the acrobatic Texan who breezed to victory in 1963 without even losing a set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Pingpong, Anyone? | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

For the U.S. the worst blow was yet to come. Last May both Emerson and Stolle were booted off the Australian Davis Cup squad for playing in foreign tournaments without permission. But as soon as the results from Wimbledon were in, Aussie tennis officials started talking about lifting the ban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Pingpong, Anyone? | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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