Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be fair to say that nothing would have ever happened to Graceville if not for the seven summers of the Graceville Oilers. In 1952, a group of men in town came up with the money to field a team in the Class D Alabama-Florida League. They made a deal with a Ford dealer (free advertising for station wagons) to solve the transportation problem, wangled hand-me-down uniforms from the Cincinnati Reds, carved a baseball diamond out of the high school stadium, and spread the word in the town's weekly newspaper. The other league members like Dothan...
...cannot in good conscience plead for fair procedures, the elimination of discrimination and the right of free expression for black Americans when the N.A.A.C.P.'s leadership is so hypocritical and lacking in integrity as to disregard those standards in its own affairs...
When TIME was already a fairly important magazine, Luce did not consider it beneath his dignity to appear at a businessmen's lunch and stage a quiz game to demonstrate the importance of accurate information. Later he was to write that the "invention" involved in TIME lay not in its brevity or in its principle of organizing the news but in its emphasis on the "instructive role of journalism." Still later, in early 1939, when he was displeased with the magazine, he complained: "Somehow it does not give the feel of being desperately, whimsically, absurdly, cockeyedly, whole-souledly determined...
...prefer anonymity, consider TV "contaminating." None of their five children (now aged 13 to 25) was allowed to watch. What about them now? Their oldest son, now a high school teacher in California, admits to smoking pot and is raising his two-year-old son on the laissez-faire principles of Scottish Educator A. S. Neill. But not on TV; the child will have to grow up without it. A fair number of videophobes are Quakers...
John F. Kennedy '40, in narrowly beating Nixon eight years ago, won the states of New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Humphrey is given a good chance in the first, a fair one in the second, not much hope in the third, and none at all in the fourth...