Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throw a nickel on the grass, Save a fighter pilot's asterisk...
...Lucky Debonair: the $30,400 Blue Grass Stakes, tune-up for this week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
...civil rights group puzzles the U.S. press more than S.N.C.C. (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), the young militants who go by the acronym "Snick." While some commentators applaud Snick's success in helping Southern Negroes on a grass-roots level, others fret that Snick is being infiltrated by extremists and Communists. In this month's Commentary, Novelist Robert Penn Warren digs deeper into Snick than anyone to date. In probing interviews, Warren draws out two leading Snickers (as they are called by Southern cops), who give some surprising-and reassuring-reasons for belonging to Snick...
...Hunt's opening dream sequences, three naked young blades cower in the deep grass while a pack of chic horsewomen come galloping through the glen. Director Edouard Molinaro thus establishes a theme to justify his title. Then, with stylish clowning, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Rich and Jean-Claude Brialy take out after a galaxy of predatory French dolls in wild, whimsical, aimless and occasionally rather funny fashion...
...Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee emphasizes that local people, rather than civil rights workers, must make the decisions for the movement. But SNCC is distrustful of the established Negro leadership--the ministers, school principals and professionals--and when SNCC moves into a new area, it seeks to discover and develop grass-roots leaders who will challenge the conservatives. Fannie Lou Hamer, for example, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, used to be a sharecropper...