Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eight years ago, the black man could not set foot inside many U.S. restaurants or hotels-except as a servant. Now, almost the last vestige of segregation has been wiped off the law books. A Negro votes in the Senate; another sits on the Supreme Court; until this week, a third sat in the President's Cabinet. Black mayors govern Cleveland and Gary, Ind., while in the South, nearly 400 serve in all kinds of elective offices. Black faces are now common in TV commercials and magazine ads; some corporations prize black executives as highly as computers. Proportionally, there...
...Administration's opportunity comes, in large measure, from a buoyant economy. Without the economic advances of the past eight years, it would not have the means to even begin the job that must be done domestically. One of its most important functions, therefore, is to maintain prosperity through fiscal and monetary policy. A sound and expanding economy is more important than any single federal program in combatting poverty and many other social ills. Beyond that, how should the Federal Government direct its huge (but not unlimited) resources toward achieving the nation's ideals? The question now demands a different answer...
...sponsor-the United Housing Foundation, a nonprofit group organized by 40 labor unions-conceived the $294 million project on a monumental scale. When it is completed in 1971, Co-Op City will cover 300 acres of filled marshland, with 35 apartment towers, from 24 to 33 stories in height, eight block-square parking garages, six schools, several shopping centers, 236 townhouses, and assorted service buildings-an instant city...
...Opera, Rudolf Bing, has grown so used to skirmishes with the critics that his defenses have nearly become reflex actions. In announcing the six new productions he will mount at the Met next season, Bing simultaneously unleashed a blast at the waiting critics. "What is the press? Six or eight people with their own opinions," snapped Bing. "If critics were acrobats, they would all long ago be dead." ∙∙∙ Ill lay: German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, 55, in Bonn with an attack of pleurisy that caused him to cancel last week's scheduled trip to Asia; baseball...
Harlem's overwhelming musical impact on the jazz age is conveyed by a room where pictures of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Bessie Smith are flashed onto eight screens, while loudspeakers boom their music...