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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time he was 18, Edward Leo McMahon Jr. had been a pitchman for eight years. He was the genuine article, too, peddling merchandise on the sidewalks: "Folks, I'm gonna show you the Morris Metric Slicer. Two dollars is the price on the box, but forget the two dollars. I'm talking about one dollar, and I'm throwing in the onion slicer and the juice extractor." When Ed talked, the folks listened. And when they listened, they usually bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Announcers: The Pitchman | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Across the U.S. last week, black anger engulfed at least eight college campuses and even a high school. As the Christmas holidays ended and higher education hesitantly launched into the long, cold winter term, strikes and clashes with police supplanted studies. Practically all of the disorders shared a common feature: often extravagant demands by black students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Engulfed by Black Anger | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...issue were only money, the strike could probably be settled quickly. The Guild is demanding a minimum salary of $264 a week for experienced newsmen; AP offered $14 less, or $250. A more basic difference is the Guild's insistence that eight out of ten new AP employees must join the union. AP General Manager Wes Gallagher has called the demand "non-negotiable." If the AP "is to maintain its standards of objectivity," he said, "it cannot force its news employees into any organization, including a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wire Services: More Than Money | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

George Allen cried. One group of fans burned Danny in effigy. Others picketed Danny's office and formed a citizens' council to reinstate the coach. The players took a poll of the team and reported that 38 out of 40 loved Allen. Eight of them said that if he left, they would too. The team, said All-Pro Defensive Tackle Merlin Olsen, was not "the exclusive toy of a rich man." Danny was hurt, but lest the revolt further the movement for pro players to have more say in management, he tried to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Pros in the Playground | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Name the eight NBA teams in 1956 by appropriate division and city...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: A Mind-Bender for the Weight-Lifters | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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