Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harmony. John William Smith, the chance actor who started it all, grew up some years ago near Salisbury, N.C., during an era when many whites thought of Negroes (if at all) in Amos-'n'-Andy stereotypes. Smith was no Kingfish. He had a year of college (a predominantly Negro school: North Carolina A. & T.), where he studied-music and played the trumpet. Then came the post-World War II Army, in which he served as an enlisted infantryman in Japan, Korea (where he won a combat infantryman's badge) and the Philippines. But this was still...
...today, in all its greenery, Essex County for $700 worth of gunpowder, lead, axes, kettles, pistols, swords, beer and a number of other items. As recently as 1950, Negroes constituted a scant 17% of Newark's population. With the rush to the suburbs by whites in the affluent era that followed, and the northward hegira of Negro refugees from Dixie, the black population is now estimated at 50% to 55% and even more, making Newark the only major city in the North, except for Washington, with a Negro majority...
...heart of the matter in the long argument over whether to reform Britain's archaic criminal statutes against homosexuality. Despite a flurry of last-minute amendments aimed at killing the reform bill, the M.P.s passed it by a 7-1 margin. For the first time since the era of Henry VIII, private homosexual acts between consenting males over 21 will not be subject to criminal prosecution...
...never heard from the Dodgers again. The Angels finally signed him for $5,000 (which he blew on a new car), and he trotted off to Illinois-Iowa's Quad-Cities Angels in the Class A Midwest League, where he won 13 games, lost five and posted an ERA of 2.79. After that, it was all downhill. Twice, the Angels called him up; his record for those two stints in the big leagues shows 14 starts and one finish (which he lost 2-0), three victories and four defeats, and a dreadful ERA...
...Italian? In an era of Catholic collegiality, when national hierarchical organizations are taking on increased responsibility, theologians have suggested that the office of apostolic delegate is something of an anachronism. Some also contend that the apostolic delegates-most of whom are Italian- might be more effective if they were nationals of the countries to which they are posted. Top Vatican officials do not agree that the office is outdated. Argues one: "There is no way in the world in which the Pope could supervise the work of hundreds of separate episcopacies without having his man on the scene. He needs...