Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City School Board, and Roy Innis, National Director of CORE, are not only of different color-Haddad is white, Innis black-but also hold rival views on integration. Haddad is for it, Innis against. Still, the editors believe that by airing disagreements in print they can help start a dialogue between increasingly embittered white and black communities...
...instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They plan to start a journalism training program for Negro and Puerto Rican youngsters. And they both share an enthusiasm for an uphill enterprise: New York City is not notably hospitable to struggling young newspapers. The Tribune is getting some help, editorial as well as financial, from an advisory committee that includes Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, New York Times Associate Managing Editor Abe Rosenthal and Harper's Editor Willie Morris. Basically, however, the editors are counting on the fact that blacks and whites are concerned enough about one another...
...precinct captain. "A nod from the precinct captain allowed an unregistered voter to vote by merely signing an affidavit. Whether he might vote in another precinct as well would be impossible to determine. Even more remarkable was what happened inside the voting booth. Without asking whether any voter wanted help, the election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus appeared to be splitting his ticket, the judge would reach inside to tap him on the shoulder...
...plot is a strangely appealing blend of whimsy and nightshade. Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is a paranoid, intrigue-minded young wanderer who has convinced himself that a local factory is polluting the river and poisoning the entire population. With the help of a naive drum majorette (Tuesday Weld), he grandiosely plots to foil the sinister scheme. Their plans, of course, go haywire; so do they. The girl carelessly murders a nightwatchman at the factory, and discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially...
Under a deal devised with the help of Kidder, Peabody & Co., a group of blue-chip investors has agreed to give Lytton Financial a $25.5 million transfusion. The holding company will sell $8,000,000 worth of common stock to pay off a crippling burden of debt. To rebuild its reserves, the company's largest subsidiary, Los Angeles-based Lytton