Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needed housing units in Bedford-Stuyvesant and other slum areas of New York. Earlier this month, the Fairchild Hiller Corp., working with a black community group, opened the doors of the new Fairmicco Corp. in Washington's Shaw area. Eventually, Fairmicco, which will turn out such products as foot lockers and unpainted furniture, will employ 250 and will be owned outright by its workers...
...drinking crowd in the area of an apartment he rented and at the St. Francis Hotel, where he also stayed, recall him as an obsessive racial bigot, an abrasive patron who belted screwdrivers, dozed on the bar stool and bickered with anyone around. Everyone at the Rabbit's Foot Club remembers Gait's big dispute. A young woman had the temerity to tell him that Negroes were "good people." This so enraged Gait that he grabbed her arm and hauled her to the door, shouting: "I'll drop you off in Watts...
...puppies, kittens, grazing sheep and cows (sometimes used as milk pitchers). Today the ceramic gimcrack is coming back, this time destined as much for museums as for the coffee table, and in a radically different form. The current crop of gewgaws is more likely to be an eight-foot alligator, a toothbrush, or a bathroom scale with a few human toes still left in place...
...foot triple by catcher Pete Varney and two singles off the bat of Chico Garcia paced the Crimson starters to a 14-0 lead before they were repleced after four innings. The pace did not slow up when the second string came in. Ray Stitch hit a home run and Brad Fenton tripled before the hapless B.U. frosh bowed in the oncoming darkness...
...record throws. In the javelin sophomore Frank Champi set a new university record with a toss of 224'1", thirteen feet beyond his previous best. Shot-putter Dick Benka set a meet record with a toss of 56 feet and Ron Wilson broke the stadium record with a 167 foot discus throw. Charley Ajootian set a personal record with a 187 foot hammer toss...