Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, appointed his Morehouse College roommate, A. Reginald Eaves, as the city's first black public safety commissioner in 1974, white critics were quick to charge cronyism. Eaves, a lawyer, didn't make matters easier by hiring a drug addict as his secretary, ordering an $800 love seat for his office and a luxury car for his travels around the city. But Eaves also proved a highly effective and popular official, cutting violent personal crimes by 10% and drastically curbing cases of police brutality...
Then came scandal: two special investigators charged (and Eaves denied) that he "expressly authorized" permission for favored policemen, mainly blacks, to get advance looks at exams for promotions. Mayor Jackson promised "no whitewash, and no blackwash either." Last week he reached his verdict: his old friend...
...real world-were unwobbling and straightforward. He wanted clear configurations, in theory as in art. His career was almost as long as modernism itself. As a 19-year-old tyro from Philadelphia, he exhibited in the Armory Show in 1913; and he outlived Jackson Pollock by eight years. His early model was cubism-though he did not visit Paris until 1928-and the sight of Davis grappling with the diction of Picasso and Gris, working his way through the lessons with the persistence of a man taking a correspondence course, remains very moving. For a whole year, he painted...
Speaking of Reggie Jackson and chocolate (my face breaks out at the thought of either one), the new "Reggie" candy bar that will hit the stands next month in time for the opening of the baseball season already has a couple of financial strikes against it. One is its high price (25 cents for a paltry two-ounce bar) and the other is the unique traditionalism of the candy industry...
Connally is the first Pollak Lecturer to become extensively involved with the school, Ira A. Jackson '70, assistant dean of the Kennedy School, said yesterday. In the past, lecturers would give three or four lectures, have a reception and then leave Cambridge, Jackson added...