Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dictator. For two days, the Negroes haughtily segregated themselves be hind a locked door at the Palmer House. "Black Caucus," declared a sign on the door. "For Blacks Only!!!" When they finally appeared, it was with a splenetic 13-point statement, which they insisted the convention accept or they would secede. The Negroes' demands included 1) Negro membership on all committees, though they made up only about 20% of the delegates; 2) "white civilizing" committees to "humanize the savage and beastlike character of whites" as "exemplified by Lyndon Baines Johnson"; and 3) condemnation of the "im perialistic Zionist...
...desk, cried "I hate you!," later called him "a son of a bitch" and talked about "dirty black niggers." His lawyers raised the question of why she had kept still for 45 minutes without trying to protest-although a class was in session in an adjoining room, the doors were unlocked, and the interior of McNeill's office was visible through three door windows. The lawyers also wanted to know why Stephanie Smith had waited from June 13, when she claims to have been abused, until Aug. 2 to report the offense...
Desi Arnaz is back, this time as executive producer of The Mothers-in-Law (NBC). Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard are squabbling next-door neighbors whose children wind up marrying each other. Eve, best known as Our Miss Brooks, is one of the few comediennes in the business who earns her laugh track. Kaye, who plays an Italian housewife, is a versatile actress, but she tends to overdo to the point that the show may be boycotted by Frank Sinatra's Anti-Defamation League. Producer Arnaz thinks he has a winner. "It's not sophisticated," he says...
...newspapers in Paris and the French provinces are not enough to finance A.F.P.'s worldwide operations, Marin is conscious of the need to expand abroad. Toughest market to crack thus far has been the Anglo-American press. This year A.F.P. at least got its foot in the door when both the New York Times and the Times of London joined its growing list of regular subscribers...
...discourage use of uncoded checks for the past year or two. When the money is coming in, however, most banks are still happy to take it any way it comes. Declared an officer of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank: "A check can be written on a door or a piece of cardboard or carved in stone. We'll still accept...