Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President or disappoint those who want to see a swift end to the war. For the time being, he contented himself with a thinly veiled rebuke to his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Eugene McCarthy. "Peace talkers are 10?a dozen today," Humphrey said at a dinner-dance at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. "Peaceworkers, peacemakers are priceless." Judging from the still-remote prospects for peace, that verdict seems unimpeachable...
...achievement in a basically white society, Ebony cannot take black separatism too seriously. Unlike some Negro publications, it has not banned the word Negro, but uses it interchangeably with the more fashionable "black." A recent editorial tried good-humoredly to put the matter in perspective. It described an after-dinner speaker who began: "Mr. Chairman, distinguished platform guests and my fellow Afro-Americans, Negro, Black, Colored, Soul Brothers and Sisters ..." To some militants, including some members of the staff, Ebony is too smugly middleclass. To which Executive Editor Herbert Nipson replies: "Some people expect Ebony, because it is a Negro...
...plan for the average CEBUS victim. Mine is workable, simple, and guaranteed to trim the waistline while liberating the mind from ugh-plugs. For women, the average battery of three commercials per station break allows time for any of the following: washing and rinsing about one-third of the dinner dishes, emptying trash, sorting or putting away the wash, pressing any two wash-and-wear items, filling the coffeepot for the next morning, feeding any household pet. For men: finding the car keys, tucking in the children, taking trash out, balancing checkbook, having brief argument with wife or kissing wife...
Today is the last day to sign up for the Summer School Tour of Cape Cod and Vicinity, including guided tour of of historic Plymouth, Mayflower II, Plimouth Plantation plus Falmouth, swimming at Hyannis Port, dinner at the Yachtsman, concluding with the performance of J. Offenbach's La Perichole by the Oberelin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players on Saturday. Tickets and details at 4 Matthews Hall. $13 per person...
...small minority of the student population, and by no means on all campuses (though it is generally accepted at the biggest ones). It is virtually out in the South. Most parents almost anywhere are still deeply troubled if not outraged by it, and "Guess who's coming to dinner, Mom?" is a line to frighten not a few households. But compared with a few years ago, the custom has increased dramatically. "It's no big thing any more," says a blonde 17-year-old who graduated from California's El Cerrito High School. Nor need mixed couples...