Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reconstruction" that followed the Civil War, the victorious North tried to wipe out every lingering trace of slavery. But three constitutional amendments and more than half a dozen federal statutes could not put an end to prejudice. As Abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in 1881: "The colored man is the Jean Valjean of America. He has escaped from the galleys and hence all presumptions are against...
Wire Machines. So far, CATV services about 6% of U.S. set owners-10 million or so Americans in 2,400 communities. But industry experts calculate that half of the U.S. TV homes will be wired in by 1972 and 90% by 1980. One reason for the growth-apart from the ghost-free studio-quality reception of what may eventually total 30 VHP and UHF channels-is that CATV in some markets offers its own programming on unused channels. Typical example: a cable firm might display a clock for an instant time check on one channel, and carry running weather forecasts...
...real beauty of the beauties on parade is that everyone is a winner. The sponsors get a curvy queen who boosts the sales curve. The networks get the talent for free, and thus can produce the spectaculars for about half the cost of a variety show. And the pageant promoters get added revenue from selling the rights to run preliminary contests at local and regional levels. If a city balks at the price, there are always other takers waiting in line. Eight years ago, the Miss Universe Pageant moved to Miami when Long Beach, Calif., refused...
Wilson's experiment suggests that extra inches are available to anyone who achieves increasing degrees of success, on campus or off. But apparently the success must be of considerable dimension. For even when he was Professor England, the visitor's estimated height still fell more than half an inch short of his actual height...
...that constitute soul. He has to have "been down the line," as Negroes say, and "paid his dues" in life. Aretha, in spite of her youth, has paid heavily. "I might be just 26, but I'm an old woman in disguise?26 goin' on 65," she says only half jokingly. "Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't it hurts even more. And I've been hurt?hurt...