Word: gro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LeRoi Jones has a beard, a gigantic grievance collection, and a notion that he is the Jonathan Swift of the Ne gro revolution. But Swift's excremental visions were elaborated by his intellect; Jones's explosive expressions proceed from a simpler impulse. In The Toilet, his most effective play, the action transpires in a latrine. And in this book, described on the dust jacket as an autobiography, he announces aggressively: "This thing, if you read it, will jam your face in my -." It will indeed. On almost every page, Author Jones, who is now 31 years old, makes...
Cleve McDowell was the second Ne gro, after James Meredith, to be admit ted to the University of Mississippi. Un like Meredith, Law Student McDowell rarely granted press interviews, made no splash at N.A.A.C.P. meetings, made himself as unobtrusive as possible. But last week, as he hurried up the steps of the law school building for his third day of classes in the new fall term, McDow ell dropped his sunglasses. He stooped to retrieve them - and out of his pocket fell a .22-cal. pistol. When he walked out of class, he was arrested by County Sheriff Joe Ford...
...just the cutest little pup you ever saw, but along came a bounty hunter and shot his mother, and poor little Lobo was forced to become a lone wolf. Naturally, he killed a few cows now and then, and why not? Man had eliminated the buffalo, and Gro-Pup doesn't grow on trees. But his private life was exemplary. When he grew up he fell in love at first bite and became a thoroughly respectable meat-winner...
...already blaze with artificial light to speed the flowering of their plants, must pay heavily for electric energy, and much of it is wasted on light that plants cannot use. For florists, and for housewives who grow African violets in dark apartments, Sylvania's special fluorescent lamp, called Gro-Lux, may mean a significantly smaller electric bill...
...plants, the new light seems twice as bright (gives off twice as much usable energy) as it does to humans. Bathed in its lavender glow, leaves look dark blue-green, and Electrical Engineer Joseph Roland Morin, head of the team that developed Gro-Lux, predicts a great future for the off-color plant lamp. Long before it lights up indoor farms, it may be a boon to commercial florists. "In 20 years," says Morin, "you won't see any more conventional greenhouses...