Word: flints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously many of the members want peaceful change; Black Power exponents pushed through an open-housing ordinance in Flint, Mich. On the other hand, the mood of ugliness was typified by H. Rap Brown, who went to court for bail-term violations and spoke up so harshly during a recess that he was charged with threatening a Negro FBI agent: "We are going to get you, and if you have any children, we will get them...
...Reuther, 58, labor organizer and second of the U.A.W.'s three Reuther brothers; of a heart attack; in Detroit. With Walter and Victor, Roy was a driving force in the early days of the U.A.W., personally plotted and led the first successful strike against General Motors in Flint, Mich., in 1937 -a landmark victory that gave the infant U.A.W. the impetus that eventually made it the second largest union...
...proved with the Flint films, Coburn can cut a wide peel from some mighty small potatoes. But this enterprise makes him seem less a star than a character actor who needs smaller roles in order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...
...Flint, Mich., has a Negro mayor, but his duties are largely ceremonial...
...Flint, Mich., Negro Mayor Floyd J. McCree sadly announced that he was quitting his largely ceremonial, $9.23-a-week post because the city council had voted down an open-housing ordinance. "I'm not going to sit up here and live an equal-opportunity lie," said McCree. Flint (pop. 205,000) was the first major American city to boast a Negro mayor...