Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phrey, Eugene McCarthy and Georgia's Lester Maddox-and three of the del egations were staying. Other agents were on round-the-clock duty outside the candidates' suites, checking passengers debarking from elevators. The Sheraton-Blackstone across the street, where Senator George McGovern was billeted, got equal protection. Press photographers were warned not to shoot pictures through open windows lest they be mistaken for snipers...
Retired Mouth. As Talent Associates' president, Susskind shares that expec tation. Privately held by himself and two equal partners, Daniel Melnick and Leonard Stern, the company had rev enues last year of about $15 million, and its profits were in "the seven-figure category." That was a vast improvement over past years, when Talent Associ ates suffered in no small part because of its voluble boss's knack for alien ating network brass. But Susskind has learned to confine his contrariness large ly to his still running TV talk show...
...delegate was unduly harsh. If Tomism was evident, so was a determined effort by Negro doctors to achieve equal status with white physicians. The delegates winced when a Black Nationalist woman guest lashed out: "We're two nations! If we weren't, you wouldn't be here now, because there wouldn't have to be two medical associations." She was right. The N.M.A. was founded in 1895 because the Negro was being neglected by the American Medical Association, many of whose constituent county and state societies were lily-white. Still true to form, the A.M.A. sent...
...young Negro candidate who went through two-thirds of the questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort to be fair," says Harris, "but we are going to have to recognize differences because black students have not come up in the same cultural environment...
...will. It sleeps during daylight hours but becomes "very active" at night or when it is disturbed. It is so strong and slippery that it is virtually impossible to handle. One specimen, placed in a 70-gal. tank with other fish, promptly attacked and killed a fish of equal size. "All other fish in the tank gave the Clarias a wide berth," the scientists noted, "a piranha being no exception...