Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Wallace's American Independent Party wins enough Deep South states to force selection of the next President into the House of Representatives. With one vote for each state delegation, a handful of Wallaceites prove crucial. What price their support? If not repeal of the 13th and 14th Amendments, an ambassadorship to South Africa for George, at the very least...
...vast crowd-half white, half black-marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Placards identified them as "Sisters of Watts" and "Concerned Citizens from Slippery Rock"; costumes identified them as Indians and Mexican-Americans, hippies and middle-class citizens of all shades. Young people waded thigh-deep in the Mall's giant reflecting pool, and families sprawled on the grass for picnics of fried chicken, chitlins and all manner of exotic salads. Even the numbing, five-hour drone of songs (four), speeches (19), and prayers (five) recalled another occasion...
...patients-have improved in recent years," says Dr. Lionel Swan, a Detroit G.P. and president of the National Medical Association, who was a guest at the A.M.A. convention last week. But Swan points out that Negro doctors are still excluded from hospital-staff membership almost everywhere in the Deep South. In other regions, they are admitted only as token members. Negro specialists rarely receive referrals from white doctors. Black doctors who do manage to achieve staff status almost never move up into administrative positions. Those who practice privately must often arrange through white colleagues to have their patients admitted...
...Columbia Records contract, Aretha began plying a sometimes seamy circuit of jazz and rhythm & blues clubs?with disheartening results. "I was afraid," she says. "I sang to the floor a lot." In the recording studio, she cut side after side with stereotyped pop arrangements ?which sold indifferently. Deep down, she knew what was wrong with her repertory of standards, jazz tunes and novelties: "It wasn't really...
...A.M.C., which after two years of deep deficit showed a $1,133,775 profit for the six months ending March 31, shedding Kelvinator will provide some of the cash necessary for continued recovery. The purchase price is expected to be about $45 million, and A.M.C. is sure to apply at least part of that toward a $52.5 million short-term bank loan due at the end of the year. Equally important, income from the deal could enable the company to move further into the production of parts, thus reduce its costly reliance on outside suppliers. As A.M.C. Chairman...