Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes who attended: Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes, Rafer Johnson, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., among others. The accompanying story was a perceptive account of Bobby's growth as a civil rights leader. In a previous issue, U.S. Senators got their pictures in the magazine only because they happen to frequent the Senate restaurant presided over by a Negro maitre d'hotel, Robert Parker Jr. Said the story: "Even for Senator Richard Russell (D., Ga.), who is not noted for his high esteem for Negroes, 'there is only one maitre d' in the U.S.-Parker...
...Owings' team into what he calls "the fifth dimension of planning?politics, the art of getting things done." The team works with local, state and federal governments, is bringing public officials together with homeowners, businessmen and minority groups. They form a giant new client. And they care what will happen to the highway as deeply as any client S.O.M. has ever served...
...second fiddler the likes of which chamber music has rarely seen. Whirling like a dervish around the fringes of the limelight, he is not only a tireless performer but also an enormously influential catalyst and organizer, teacher and tastemaker. Wherever he goes, music seems to happen around him through a sort of spontaneous combustion...
...recruiting or dropout problems. White says yes, but so long as blackness and separatism are requirements, the membership can do no more than cause disruption, because it can never grow large enough to complete a revolution ... It is a weird sort of coffee-housing, especially if Black and White happen to be friends; it never seems quite real, nor does it seem completely fake...
Enormous posters appeared on the walls of Jerusalem's Orthodox Jewish quarters. "This must not happen!" the signs warned. "It is a desecration. Come by the thousands to the Holy Wall." Task forces of black-frocked, black-hatted rabbis and students took turns guarding the city's Wailing Wall, while more than 1,000 Jerusalem policemen stood on the alert to prevent violence...