Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, spokesmen for Students for a Democratic Society and the May Second Movement said they had never heard of the "Harvard Council...
There was Oklahoma's hearty Governor Henry Bellmon, 44, running around the island of Kyushu handing out Japanese-language recipes for "Okrahoma" pecan pie. The mystified Japanese smiled politely, and finally someone pointed out that hardly anyone in Japan had ever heard of pecan pie. Well, boomed Bellmon as he wound up a U.S.-Japan Governors' conference tour, "that's all the more reason to push it. Why, man, this is virgin country for Oklahoma pecans...
What's Wrong? From the California Real Estate Association, the court heard a far different story. Section 26 represents the people's overwhelming veto of "ill-conceived" laws forbidding private discrimination, said Los Angeles Lawyer Samuel O. Pruitt Jr. Those laws, he suggested, violated private-property rights under the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment. In effect, they empowered the state to tell property owners to whom they must sell or rent...
...arguments had a troublesome ring. Section 26 might indeed involve state action, but "the question is," mused Chief Justice Roger Traynor, "what's so wrong, about that action?" Traynor seemed to be looking to the difficult decision ahead as well as the involved arguments that he had just heard when he finally ended the debate with a sigh: "I don't know how you feel, Counsel, but I'm awfully tired...
...Sammy kept were not those recommended by Dr. Spock, but in a way he was luckier than many of his Negro contemporaries. He never dropped out of school because he never dropped in, avoided the ghetto life by staying on the road. He was eight years old before he heard the word "nigger," did not really come face to face with race prejudice until he joined the Army...