Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white psychologist, opened his backyard swimming pool to Negro children, and was soon playing host to two shifts a day, five days a week. By the end of summer, as Stevens' example spread, 2,000 Negro youngsters were regularly and happily splashing in 22 private pools. With the help of volunteers, both black and white, Cleveland Adman Frank T. McDonough, 64, re-sodded lawns in a seven-block area in Hough, the city's ghetto. He has since marked 40 more blocks for the same treatment. "Some day I knew I was going to see my Maker," said...
...remedy consists in the deployment of "White Power" at every level of white society, challenging behavior and attitude patterns that have stiffened in place less by prejudice than by habit. A mere handful of shoppers serially stating their concern to a local storekeeper because he hires no Negro help are likely to revolutionize his personnel policy: from this modest sample, in a pattern familiar to psychologists, the proprietor senses the sentiment of the community-or thinks he does. New behavior patterns can change old attitudes. "People will assume that it's right to have all-white clerks...
...Felix Mechoulam. Country life for the royal family has had its drawbacks. The dearth of servants is particularly perturbing. The royal court has been trimmed to three, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen and the two business aides for the King. On Saturday afternoons and Sundays, the household help are off, and the family often go to the nearby Olgiata Club for dinner. Other nights they are apt to seek out one of Rome's simple trattorias...
...which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country to help raise money for the East African Cancer Fund. "It's a fun thing to do," explains Reeve, "and I've bought a legend...
...Rose also suggested that a defense is to smear Vaseline on uncovered skin, a tactic used by Columbia University rioters among others. The manufacturers hold that Vaseline traps the droplets of Mace and so is a hindrance rather than a help...