Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, in the higher reaches of City Hall, the talk is of equal and exact justice for all. "We know the law isn't being enforced out there," commented a top aide to Mayor Albert Boutwell soon after the city hired its first Negro policemen last April. "Those people just don't call the police. We know they don't trust them." That, he said, was one of the main reasons for putting two Negroes (two more have since been hired) on the 572-man force. Until then, Birmingham was the largest city in the nation without a single Negro...
Outside of these two goals, neither team could mount much of an attack. Harvard's forwards and halfbacks worked the ball around with control and skill, but around isn't in. No matter now many defenders they got around, there was always one more backing up the play...
...small number of teachers work there, including a few mothers from the neighborhood and some teenagers. Palmer is happy with the growth of the library, but admits that it isn't yet attracting Negroes in large numbers...
...Yovvy isn't blaming anyone in particular for last Saturday's performance -- he'll be starting the same eleven men tomorrow. What he wants is better containment of the quarterback within the "defensive perimeter," keeping him from getting around...
...More reasonable is the complaint that Bing has failed to bring along enough first-rate conductors. He contends that "there are few really distinguished conductors around, but the shortage at the Metropolitan is no more severe than anywhere else. After all, nobody knows who conducts in Vienna when it isn't Von Karajan." More to the point, everybody knows that it is Bing who calls the tunes at the Met. Great conductors usually have egos to match, and the inevitable collision between Bing and the baton men caused such autocratic maestros as George Szell and the late Fritz Reiner...