Word: griffins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What Griffin did was really quite simple. He persuaded a dermatologist in New Orleans to treat him with a medicine used to cure vitiligo: a skin disease which causes white blotches to appear on a Negro's face and body. Where the medicine worked imperfectly, Griffin applied black stain; then he shaved his hair, and within a few days was transformed into a Negro...
...which so often prevent Negroes from unifying for advancement. He learns of the squalid noisiness of the Negro ghetto, where sex, booze, and gluttony are the sole means of forgetting the lifelong barrier that seals them off from real humanity; of the tiny injustices imposed by the white world (Griffin is forever having to walk long blocks just to urinate); and of the bigger injustices that are perpetually evident in the white man's "hate stares," his constant use of the word "boy" while talking at all Negroes, his utter unwillingness to show them the tiniest human courtesy...
Among the men working with Conway on the Seminar investigation are Bernard Bailyn, professor of History and head tutor of the History Department, Lawrence Wylie, acting Master of Quincy House, and Donald R. Griffin, professor of Zoology. Griffin is currently conducting a seminar on communication and language in animals. Bailyn, like Conway, is a regular member of the CEP. Wylie, who holds the C. Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France, is known to favor small-group investigation wherever it is possible...
...Everyone knows that Robert F. Kennedy was the attorney for the McClellan Committee and that his brother, John F. Kennedy--with the aid of Archibald Cox, now solicitor general, drew up the original labor bill that was the father of the Landrum-Griffin Bill...
More than anything else, Sanders struck at the corruption in state government that had existed in Griffin's previous term (TIME, Aug. 24). Cried he: "The name and reputation Marvin Griffin gave our state during his administration made us the laughing stock of the nation, and it would again if he ever were given the opportunity to do so." Cried Sanders on television: "We caught old Marvin in the chicken house once, and we're not going to give him the keys to the smoke house again." The voters agreed...