Word: faired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wooing & Warning. In Washington and Maryland, where 56% of rental housing was closed to Negro servicemen-despite fair housing laws-Ekman won by ceaselessly wooing and warning reluctant landlords. By letter, telephone or in person, he approached 1,700 owners or managers. He found that many of them were segregationists only for economic reasons. "What they would most like," argues Ekman, "is a law that would force them to open up." That way, of course, no landlord would be fearful of losing white renters to rival apartment owners. Without such a law, Ekman can only counterweight landlords' misgivings about...
...women and Negroes that they began writing laws to prohibit them. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, son of a Negro mother and white father, who became the nation's Minister to Haiti in 1889, divorced a Negro and later married a white woman, explaining blithely that he "wanted to be fair to both races." Negro-white miscegenation, in fact, had a brief vogue after the Civil War and then declined until the post-World War II period, when gradual loosening of racial sanctions chipped further at the taboo...
Last week the army units seemed to be succeeding in their task, and the purple reports of disorder gradually trailed off. The reason may well be that Canton's semiannual trade fair is due to begin in two weeks. Japanese China watchers are convinced that it will open to its foreign visitors more or less on schedule, showing them a fairly tranquil city...
When they packed up their displays at the end of this month's Leipzig trade fair, most East German companies found themselves with virtually empty order books. One state-owned company had an altogether different problem. The famed Meissen chinaworks, which was the hit of the show, wound up with six months' worth of new business. The company's popularity was so striking that its managers were already finding it embarrassing; the "People's Own Plant, State China Manufactory, Meissen" had been running far behind in filling orders even before the trade fair began...
...avoid this situation, the White House and Pentagon would prefer to reverse the order of call to 19-year olds first; but to make this process fair, the Pentagon believes there must be a lottery--not an adaptation of the current "oldest first" procedure to a system of monthly draft calls of men between 19 and 20. The Pentagon believes that such a system would be administratively cumbersome and potentially unfair because monthly quotas vary greatly and draft calls might bunch toward a particular spot in the month (thus favoring men with birthdays immediately before the draft calls). Unfortunately...