Word: gibson
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Died. Dr. R. Walter Johnson, 72, the Negro physician whose hobby was molding promising black youngsters into tennis greats; in Lynchburg, Va. Credited with cracking the color line on public courts and in tournaments, Johnson took a teen-ager from Harlem named Althea Gibson under his wing in 1947 and prepared her for two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Six years later he befriended a frail ten-year-old named Arthur Ashe Jr. "What made me maddest," Johnson once commented, "was this idea that colored athletes . . . couldn't learn stamina or finesse...
...from the writings of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. But why complicate the issue and disrupt Jones' totalitarian fantasies about white evil and righteous black revenge? At certain levels of his struggle to spread black cultural consciousness, hyperbole and distortion may be necessary. Jones' energetic campaigning for Kenneth Gibson, Newark's first black mayor, indicates that he is well aware of the ways in which real political power is gained and wielded. As for the rhetoric of provocation and hate, perhaps it is wisest to let it blow over and await an invitation to play Ping Pong...
Many of those in the system agree. The Student American Medical Association, which speaks for 18,000 medical students, supports the Democratic bill, and many younger physicians have also given the measure their support. So has Dr. Count Gibson of Stanford University School of Medicine, who believes that the bill reflects a new philosophy of social service. "Medicine is moving from the entrepreneurial mode to the community institution," Gibson says. "You can compare it with education. In 1789, this was a private enterprise, but now nobody questions the responsibility of communities to provide public education. Now we're beginning...
...showdown ratification vote, the board's 4-4 tie was broken by the black president, Jesse Jacobs. Joining Gibson's other appointees in opposing the mayor's wishes, he banged his gavel defiantly. "Free at last!" he shouted. "I vote no!" Gibson, now ironically allied with the white board members, found chances for compromise vanishing; the union threatened a campaign to recall him. At week's end the outlook was for a cooling-off period of at least a week before negotiations might resume. Newark's restless children, who have been watching TV and wandering...
Fights and Hooky. Last week, under pressure from Mayor Gibson, the board finally agreed to accept the mediator's proposal-but called public meetings before voting formally to ratify the contract. By then the strike had become merely a symbol for the rekindled racial hostilities that erupted in Newark's 1967 summer riot...